NEW YORK (WABC) -- Gov. Kathy Hochul has declared a State of Emergency for New York as more than 42 million low-income Americans who rely on SNAP benefits, including 16 million children, brace for the potential freeze in food assistance due to the government shutdown.

"The Trump Administration is cutting food assistance off for three million New Yorkers, leaving our state to face an unprecedented public health crisis and hurting our grocers, bodegas and farmers along the way," Governor Hochul said during a news conference on Thursday. "Unlike Washington Republicans, I won't sit idly by as families struggle to put food on the table."

Hochul also announced $65 million in new state funds for emergency food assistance to help provide 40 million meals to New Yorkers.

She also announced she

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