Nevada has joined a lawsuit challenging the United States Department of Agriculture’s upcoming suspension of SNAP, which provides $90 million a month in benefits to about 500,000 Nevadans.

The USDA, which administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, wrote in a recent notice that the “well has run dry” amid the government shutdown, now in its 28th day. No benefits will be disbursed on Saturday when the new month begins.

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat, is disputing the department’s claim, writing in a statement that the federal government is choosing not to fund SNAP, pointing out that the USDA has tapped into other emergency funds during the shutdown.

“The Trump Administration’s choice to cut SNAP benefits is not only a deliberate, cruel and extraordinarily

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