Sen. Schumer fumed at a reporter from a right-leaning outlet on Tuesday, snapping that Republicans were treating American citizens as "hostages" over SNAP

Republican leaders in Congress said it's all or nothing on Wednesday as they rejected a Democratic push to carve out funding to continue food aid for more than

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) delivered a fiery floor speech Wednesday, chastising his Democratic colleagues for introducing legislation to fund SNAP benefits after consistently voting against a GOP proposal to reopen the government.

As the federal government shutdown drags on, 360,000 Connecticut residents face the growing fear that they won’t receive SNAP benefits on Nov. 1. “I try not to overstate things, but it will really be catastrophic,

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has resisted calls for smaller, separate spending bills after Schumer and his party voted 13 times to deny all federal funding and keep the government shut

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that Democrats would vote for Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) amid the

Twenty-five states and Washington, D.C., are suing the USDA, claiming that the agency unlawfully suspended SNAP benefits during the ongoing government shutdown, the office of the New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.

More than 1.6 million people who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the D.C. area are at risk of losing assistance starting Nov. 1 if the government shutdown continues, according to the Department of Agriculture (USDA).