Some Americans who receive SNAP benefits said they might not be available to feed their families or pay for household ...

A lapse in funding due to the shutdown could have a devastating effect on the millions of Americans who rely on the federal ...

The district’s free lunch and breakfast program is federally funded through the USDA’s Community Eligibility Program.

A post on X has gone viral for claiming that Project 2025 promoted removing children from single-parent SNAP households.

When the government shut down for a few weeks in October 2013, then-President Barack Obama made sure to blame conservative Republicans for refusing to pass any short-term spending bill that included ...

Congressional Republicans and Democrats failed to pass a continuing resolution to maintain government funding at current levels on Tuesday. As a result, the federal government "shut down" on Wednesday ...

The US government’s shutdown is shaking the nation at a time when public health staffing has already been reduced, the threat of disease outbreaks looms, and both the respiratory virus season and ...

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