As the president and Congress remain at an impasse on how to move forward with the federal budget, 1.4 million federal workers are no longer receiving paychecks and 1 in 8 food insecure Americans will be cut off from food stamps.

The federal government starting Saturday won’t fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, despite a reserved emergency fund to tap into in case of temporary setbacks.

President Donald Trump claimed the contingency reserve fund available to feed Americans while SNAP is on pause is not legally available and has chosen not to tap into it, despite both Republican and Democratic administrations utilizing the fund during past shutdowns. At the beginning of this year, SNAP had around $6 billion in contingency funds available, according to the Center o

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