Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced $4 million in state aid for food shelves at The Open Door in Eagan on Monday, Oct. 27, just hours after the USDA said SNAP funding has “run dry” from the shutdown.

Walz said the $4 million boost from the state will not be enough to make up for the loss of federal SNAP funding.

“I want to be very clear: It will not make up and backfill everything that is going to drop off starting on Saturday (Nov. 1). We do not have that capacity,” he said. “We put out about $74 million a month in SNAP benefits, just so you know the scope and the scale of this. Those are Minnesota tax dollars that went to the federal government.”

In a press conference at the beginning of the shutdown, Minnesota Management and Budget Director Ahna Minge warned in early October that the s

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