The Trump administration is straight-up warning that a staggering 42 million Americans could lose their federal food stamps in just days if Congress can’t get its act together and end the current government shutdown.
This is a massive, immediate problem that everyone needs to be paying attention to, because the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made it crystal clear. They do not have the ability to reshuffle funds into the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to cover the shortfall.
