TEXAS TRIBUNE — Texas Democratic lawmakers have urged Gov. Greg Abbott to use his executive authority to provide emergency state funding — a move he has done before — to offset the looming federal suspension of SNAP benefits this weekend for 3.5 million low-income Texans.

More than 50 Texas House Democrats signed a letter sent to Abbott on Thursday urging the governor to tap the same authority he used during COVID-19, the Uvalde shooting, and border operations “to save millions of Texas families from going hungry until federal funding to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is restored.”

On Saturday, the federal government will halt all SNAP assistance, also known as food stamps, to more than 42 million Americans who depend on it monthly because of the federal shutdown pr

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