Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding is in limbo due to the US government shutdown. Photo: AP PHOTO

President Donald Trump's administration says it plans to partially fund November food benefits for millions of Americans, but warned it could take some US states weeks or months to calculate and distribute the aid.

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The administration laid out the Department of Agriculture's plan in a filing in federal court in Rhode Island after a judge ordered it to use emergency funds to at least partially cover November's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

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