Attorney General Dana Nessel said it would take days for food assistance funds to actually land in the pockets of the low-income Michiganders who rely on them even if a judge orders President Donald Trump's administration to use federal contingency funds to support the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the federal government shutdown.

"I mean it takes time to get this done, and it just can't be done overnight, and that's why unfortunately we really are going to have to rely on the food banks and the food pantries to cover the time period," Nessel said during an Oct. 31 news conference at the Capuchin Services Center, a food pantry in Detroit.

The pause in SNAP benefits slated to start Nov. 1 leaves food banks still scrambling to take unprecedented steps to try to

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