FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - Two federal judges ruled Friday that the Trump administration must fund the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP .

Due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, SNAP payments were set to pause on November 1.

The United States Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, has an emergency fund. According to the federal judges, those emergency funds must be used to disburse SNAP payments.

However, the White House insists that it can’t do so unless the federal government is reopened.

More than 40 million Americans use SNAP, including over half a million Hoosiers, according to the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration’s Monthly Management Report in September.

Below is a breakdown by 21Country counties of the total amo

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