About 42 million people will lose their SNAP benefits when funding runs out in November due to the shutdown.

"Bottom line, the well has run dry," the Agriculture Department said in a notice on its website.

The nation's largest union of federal employees called on lawmakers to end the shutdown by passing a "clean" Republican-backed resolution that doesn’t include an extension of health care subsidies.

Senate Democrats are refusing to advance a short-term government funding measure until Republicans restore major cuts to Obamacare.

WASHINGTON ‒ Governors and attorneys generals from 25 states sued to stop the White House from ending Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits on Nov. 1 as the government shutdown reached Day 28.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Boston, cal

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