WASHINGTON — With federal food assistance on the brink of vanishing this weekend for millions nationally, New York’s Democratic and Republican members of Congress and Gov. Kathy Hochul engaged Thursday in dueling blame-throwing news conferences from Washington to Harlem.

Also Thursday, a federal judge in Boston reacted skeptically to the Trump’s administration’s argument that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits could be suspended for the first time in the program’s history because of the government shutdown.

On one side of the U.S. Capitol, New York's Democratic senators — Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand — attacked President Donald Trump for not allowing nearly $5 billion in emergency contingency funds previously designated for the food assistance program to be used d

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