WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), co-sponsored a bill to reinstate Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits during the government shutdown.

Cassidy and 10 other Republican senators penned the bill, which you can read by scrolling down, called the "Keep SNAP Funded Act.

In other developments Tuesday, more than two dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday seeking to preserve food assistance benefits after officials announced last week they would not use emergency funds to cover the food stamp program during the government shutdown.

Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides food assistance benefits to nearly 42 million people — or one in eight Americans — will run out at the end of the month, the

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