Long lines have formed at food pantries across the U.S. as federal food benefits were cut off due to the government shutdown.

The pain of the shutdown is being felt by millions of other Americans as the federal government enters Day 32 of a funding squabble.

Some 42 million recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will have to wait for them to be restored after losing them on Saturday.

A pair of federal judges ordered the Trump administration to keep SNAP payments flowing during the government shutdown, averting a lapse in food aid for millions of Americans.

U.S. District Judge John McConnell said that he will block the Trump administration from suspending SNAP benefits during the shutdown.

Many shoppers are trying to stretch out their final dollars as they face the reality of what they’ll have to shell out without government assistance.

President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration's lawyers are not sure they have the legal authority to pay federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits during the government shutdown and said he has asked for clarity from the courts in the wake of two recent decisions.