Voices to End Hunger

A Critical Week for SNAP Food Assistance

Late last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the federal government would cease providing funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – known as SNAP – starting November 1, in response to the ongoing government shutdown. This announcement was met with both moral and legal pushback on the Hill and from beneficiaries and advocates across the country. On this special episode of Voices to End Hunger, Minerva Delgado speaks with David Super, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Economics at Georgetown University Law Center. He explains what is going on with SNAP, how we got here, and what beneficiaries and broader communities should expect in the coming days.

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David Super: The Administration’s Shutdown of SNAP is Obviously Illegal (https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-administrations-shutdown-of-snap-is.html)