The Senate funding deal cleared another hurdle overnight and heads to the House for debate and a final vote this evening. The move comes as millions of Americans have been struggling to put food on the table, with food stamp benefits stopped since Nov. 1.

With the U.S. Supreme Court extending a pause on a judge's ruling ordering the Trump administration to release full SNAP benefits ahead of tonight's vote, questions arose about Virginia's emergency food program called VENA.

Youngkin explained the logistical challenge of operating both systems simultaneously.

"We use the same distribution card system, and so you can't run both systems at the same time. It's either the federal system or the state system, and as of the weekend they told us that they needed to do all the prep work to get t

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