On October 28, the U.S. federal government ¡°stopped¡± for four weeks, and a federal food aid program depending on tens of millions is about to run out of funds. The Democratic-dominated 25 states and the capital Washington filed lawsuits against the federal government on the same day, demanding federal emergency funding to sustain the project.

The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Massachusetts to overturn the federal government¡¯s earlier directive that states should stop issuing food aid benefits, and to demand the Ministry of Agriculture to mobilize all available funds to ensure the ¡°supplemental nutrition assistance program¡± continues in November.

Due to the government¡¯s ¡°stop-down,¡± the ¡°supplemental nutrition assistance program¡± will run out of funds on 31st of this month. This project covers about 42 million across the United States, accounting for about one-eighth of the total population, most of whom earn below the poverty line.

In September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it intended to use federal emergency funds to maintain the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during the "stop". But on October 25, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the suspension of the program and it would stop providing food relief on November 1. A memo disclosed by the media by the Department of Agriculture showed that the federal government refused to use this total of approximately $5 billion in emergency funds to maintain the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on the grounds that the law stipulates that emergency funds are used for disasters-like purposes and cannot be used for daily welfare expenses. In addition, the Department of Agriculture also said that if the states temporarily allocated the cost of the project in November, they would not

Democratic Senate Democratic leader Schumer said the government¡¯s failure to fund food relief programs was a ¡°cruel act.¡±Some state prosecutors involved in the 28th lawsuit wrote to Minister of Agriculture Rowling, asking the Ministry of Agriculture to provide a legal explanation for the delayed allocation of funds and provide possible interventions before the ¡°supplemental nutrition assistance program¡± was stopped.