USDA won’t shuffle funds to extend SNAP during shutdown, in about-face from earlier plan

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a memo Friday the agency’s contingency fund cannot legally be used to provide food assistance benefits for more than 42 million people in November, as the government shutdown drags on. The position is a reversal from the department’s earlier stance, according to a since-deleted copy of the USDA’s […]