Some 3 million low-income New Yorkers are about to miss their next food payments unless the federal government shutdown ends or a judge orders the Trump administration to fund the program.

The cutoff is set to start Saturday, Nov. 1, when states have been ordered to stop making payments under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because of insufficient funding. That would block payments to 42 million Americans who get that aid each month to buy groceries.

New York and 24 other states sued the Trump administration over the SNAP halt on Oct. 28 , arguing it could tap $6 billion in contingency funds to continue the program in the midst of a month-long budget standoff in Congress. A federal judge in Boston is due to hear the states' request for a temporary order on Thursday, Oct.

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