President Donald Trump's administration to tell two federal judges whether it will comply with court orders that it continue to fund the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during .

The U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program starting Nov. 1 because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown. The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net — and it costs about $8 billion per month nationally.

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