The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — more commonly known as SNAP, or food stamps — is a key benefits program that serves more than 40 million people across the country. Now, the shutdown is threatening to suspend benefits, raising concerns over where millions of people who rely on the program will turn to for food.

SNAP benefits are expected to resume after congressional lawmakers pass a bill funding the federal government, which will end the current shutdown. Currently, Republican and Democratic lawmakers are at a stalemate, having failed to advance any proposed legislation to reopen the government.

Gov. Mike DeWine signed an executive order to give $7 million to Ohio food banks and $18 million to low-income families.

SNAP benefits are set to pause Nov. 1 impacting over one million people in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. WASHINGTON — With the Senate adjourned until Monday, the government shutdown is likely to last through the weekend, which means Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will pause for millions of Americans Saturday, Nov. 1.

President Trump said he would fund SNAP in a social media post Friday, after two judges ordered the administration to distribute money to recipients of the program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency for New York on Thursday, days before SNAP benefits and other assistance are set to dry out amid the ongoing, and historic, federal government shutdown.

More than 1.6 million people in the D.C. area rely on SNAP benefits. Beginning Nov. 1, those federal benefits will stop being distributed until the government reopens.