Eventually, Congress should add SNAP to the list of programs, such as Social Security, that continue to operate during a shutdown. But there's a humanitarian crisis right now.

The longest-ever federal government shutdown, and especially its consequences, are a betrayal of the American people.

It was bad enough that more than 1 million federal employees have been working or not working for no pay. Now tens of millions of food-assistance recipients are, maybe, sometime, getting some benefits for November and have no indication sign of when the normal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program might resume.

This should never have been allowed to happen. The lapse in payments was telegraphed for days, enabled by a few particularly malign actors in the executive branch, but nobody could manag

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