Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins warns over 40 million Americans could lose SNAP food stamp benefits November 1 due to ongoing government shutdown funding crisis.

Nevada has joined a lawsuit challenging the United States Department of Agriculture’s upcoming suspension of SNAP benefits, which provide $90 million a month to around 500,000 Nevadans.

Wisconsin joined a multi-state lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture to force the release of FoodShare funds before benefits run dry Nov. 1.

The most effective way to make beef more affordable isn’t by artificially manipulating the market with imported product,” said Joe Goggins, a coalition member from Montana. “It’s by helping America’s cattle producers enter and stay in the business of raising cattle.

SNAP has about $6 billion in the contingency fund — short of the roughly $9 billion needed to cover a full month of the program, putting November benefits in jeopardy.

The Agriculture Department will reopen about 2,100 county offices all across the country Thursday despite the ongoing government shutdown to help farmers and ranchers get access to $3 billion of aid f

Attorney General Jeff Jackson is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Office of Management and Budget for refusing to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the government shutdown and withholding food assistance for 1.

NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson is taking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to court, accusing the agency of illegally withholding more than $230 million in monthly food assistance for 1.4 million North Carolinians.