With the federal government shut down and the Trump administration refusing to tap reserve funds, 42 million low-income Americans are expected to lose access on Saturday to food assistance through the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP.

More than two dozen states led by Democratic governors and attorneys general have sued the administration, saying the cutoff of funding to the program, which provides around $187 a month to about 1 out of every 8 people in the United States, is unnecessary and illegal.

The states have asked a federal judge to force the Agriculture Department to use billions of dollars in federal emergency funds to provide at least partial payments to enrollees in the program. Whether that will happen remains to be seen.

Here are some of the ways that st

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