The Central Texas Food Bank expects to spend roughly four times its monthly budget to support Austin-area SNAP recipients.

The calls to the Republican governor came as the food stamp program was set to run out of funding amid the government shutdown.

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Here's where North Texans can find help as the government shutdown continues. And how you can help your neighbors in need.

The Texas Legislative Progressive Caucus is calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to act now in using the state's Rainy Day Fund to provide funds for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as the government shutdown may cause those 3.

Millions of Texans could lose access to federal food assistance on Nov. 1 as the government shutdown continues.

A federal judge in Boston has indicated that she may intervene and require the federal government to fund the SNAP food assistance program in some way.

Texas is home to 254 counties—more than any other U.S. state—and has wide disparities in SNAP enrollment. According to a September 2025 report from Texas Health and Human Services, Lamar County had the highest enrollment at 29.5 percent of residents, while King County had the lowest at 0.7 percent.