Gov. Katie Hobbs says the nearly 900,000 Arizonans getting food stamps should not look to her or the state for help if benefits dry up next week due to the government shutdown.

"Arizona doesn't have the capacity to backfill that,'' the governor said after participating Friday in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new building at the Polytechnic Campus of Arizona State University.

Instead, Hobbs is looking to others, outside state government.

"We're going to really count on our nonprofit social service community step up and be partners,'' she said. But any way you look at it, the governor said, "it's going to be very challenging for Arizonans.''

The latest figures show that more than 450,000 households in Arizona rely on what is formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Progr

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