In a move that advocates call potentially “catastrophic,” President Donald Trump’s administration plans to withhold food stamp funding if the federal government shutdown is not resolved by the end of October, leaving 1.9 million people across Illinois in peril.

The Illinois Department of Human Services announced Thursday it received notice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that the federal agency would not fund November benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP, across the country starting Nov. 1 unless there’s a resolution to the shutdown.

For Illinois, that would mean a loss of $350 million the state administers to recipients.

“If SNAP funds are not delivered by the federal government, the State of Illinois does not have the budgetary abi

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