WASHINGTON — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore declared a state of emergency on Thursday over the upcoming loss of SNAP benefits for food assistance, and laid the blame for the loss at the feet of the President.

“Donald Trump is refusing to deploy emergency federal funding that would keep food assistance programs running during this shutdown,” he said. “By doing that, I want to be clear: he is breaking the law.”

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture told state agencies to hold off distributing SNAP’s November benefits due to “insufficient funds.” When asked to reallocate money from its contingency fund, the agency said those funds could only be used for natural disasters.

Nearly 42 million people around the country rely on those funds to buy food, and more than 680,000 of them li

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