None of this is normal. Food-stamp benefits have never been cut like this in the current program’s more-than-60-year history. “It is a significant inflection point in the program’s history,” Christopher Bosso, a political scientist at Northeastern University who wrote a book on SNAP, told me. “Where we go from here is anyone’s guess.”

While the political and legal wrangling continues, the bottom line for thousands of families, including the 1 in 20 in Utah who rely on food stamps for at least part of their food, is uncertainty about the future and no benefits at the moment.

Government shutdown threatens food stamps for 42 million Americans as House Democrats reject the GOP's funding bill over a healthcare cuts dispute.

Trump attacked Democrats in a rant about being forced to pay SNAP benefits during the government shutdown — even as he threw a glitzy Great Gatsby-themed party.

The state is making another infusion of emergency food aid as 3 million New Yorkers face the looming expiration of nutrition assistance for the first time since the federal program began. The state is allocating $65 million to the state’s nutrition and farm-to-foodbank programs under a new emergency declaration,

Demonstrators are gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol, urging Gov. Brian Kemp to use state funds to support SNAP beneficiaries affected by the federal shutdown.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has resisted calls for smaller, separate spending bills after Schumer and his party voted 13 times to deny all federal funding and keep the government shut

Desiree Torres relies on federal assistance to buy food for her two children. The ongoing government shutdown means the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly called SNAP or food stamps,