ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — On Friday, Governor Kathy Hochul announced over $11 million in state funding for emergency food relief programs for hungry New Yorkers. Also on Friday, she published a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, urging the USDA to immediately release funds to food aid recipients for November and prevent a public health crisis.

This follows President Donald Trump's standoff with Congressional Democrats over the federal government shutdown. Hochul wants the Trump administration to guarantee the release the $700 million per month in benefits to rescue the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

According to Hochul's office, President Donald Trump has refused to prevent almost 3 million New Yorkers from losing benefits on November 1. The state estimate

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