Two days before around 500,000 Nevadans on food stamps are slated to lose nutritional benefits, state lawmakers affirmed $30 million to help food banks stay afloat as the government shutdown enters the one-month mark.

The request by Gov. Joe Lombardo’s administration was approved Thursday afternoon by the Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee.

An additional $200,000 for Nevada National Guard servicemembers, who will logistically help food banks, also was greenlit Thursday.

The emergency dollars — which include another $8.6 million recently allocated from a contingency fund — are only a fraction of the monthly $90 million allotted to Nevada by the federal government for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP.

Interim committee members earlier this month

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