Updated November 13, 2025

With the passage of the Republican spending package (see our Shutdown and Budget Library for more), we hope SNAP recipients will get full November benefits ASAP. The administration delayed SNAP payments to more than 40 million people, marking the first time in the program’s history that SNAP payments have been disrupted. The Coalition on Human Needs and our partners are deeply concerned that many are already struggling without SNAP benefits, and millions of families won’t get their full SNAP benefits this month. This political posturing is causing direct harm to tens of millions of people, especially children, older adults, and people with disabilities, in every state and Congressional District.

During the first Trump administration, full SNAP benefits were paid out during a shutdown, and the judge’s ruling was clear that the administration has the legal authority to fully fund SNAP benefits this month. The SNAP contingency fund has roughly $5 billion, which is more than half of the average monthly SNAP allotments. But there’s another $23 billion the administration had on hand as of last month that they can use and should to pay SNAP benefits in full in November. Every day that SNAP funding is held up, or SNAP benefits are reduced, vulnerable families and individuals go without. Millions of people who are disabled, veterans, children, and those who are facing job losses are at risk of hunger, while food banks are on the brink.

Not fully funding SNAP is a cruel choice and an act of political gamesmanship.

We wanted to share resources from our members and partners, calling on policymakers to fully fund SNAP this month and prioritize anti-hunger policies:

• USDA — SNAP Community Characteristics Dashboard Congressional District Explorer, Monthly SNAP Issuance Schedule for All States and Territories, and guidance on the restrictions to SNAP based on immigration status (from this past summer’s budget reconciliation bill)
• FRAC: Food Research & Action Center Urges USDA, States to Quickly Issue SNAP Benefits, Timeline of Trump Failure to Fund SNAP Benefits, Trump Administration Again Blocks Food Assistance for Millions, Continuing the Harm, Chaos, and Confusion, The Trump Administration’s Refusal to Feed American Families, Trump Administration Defies Court Orders to Fund SNAP, Denies 42 Million People Access to Food, USDA Must Fully Fund SNAP Benefits Digital Toolkit, FRAC Responds to Trump Administration Partial Funding of November SNAP Benefits, FRAC Applauds Courts’ Orders Securing November SNAP, Urges USDA to Fully Fund Benefits Quickly, SNAP Benefits Update: What Happens Next and Why the Timeline Varies by State, and with AFT: USDA Is Choosing to Take Food Away From Children
• CHN Nov. 6 recording: Threats to Health and Hunger: The Shutdown and Beyond, Health Care and Food: How the Trump Administration is Continuing to Hurt People by Raising the Cost of Necessities to Unaffordable Levels – And How to Fight Back, Shutdown and Budget Resource Library, and Events and Webinars
• CBPP: Beyond the Shutdown: Country Needs Congress and President to Address Health Care Cost Spikes and Rule of Law, SNAP Helps 1.2 Million Veterans With Low Incomes, Including Thousands in Every State, thread by Katie Bergh on USDA’s revised contingency fund plan, Administration Won’t Spend All SNAP Funds It Says Are Available, Leading to Deep Benefit Cuts for Low-Income Households and in the New York Times (gift link): Some SNAP Recipients May Not Receive Food Stamps Under White House Policy (which prompted USDA’s REVISED Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Benefit and Administrative Expense Update for November 2025,  thread by Ty Cox Jones in response to the Trump Administration’s announcement they will only partially fund SNAP in November, thread by Katie Bergh on USDA only using 2/3 of the SNAP contingency fund, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families
• MAZON: Ending the Shutdown Doesn’t Mean Ending Threats to SNAP, Americans in Hunger, Veterans Day Amid a SNAP Crisis, Leading Anti-Hunger Advocate Responds to SNAP Ruling: ‘Enough Is Enough’, Following Court Rulings, Leading Anti-Hunger Advocate Demands Immediate and Full Funds for SNAP
• NETWORK: Interfaith Partners Urge Congress and the White House to End Shutdown and Protect the American People, Interfaith Letter on bipartisan solution to end the shutdown, resolve food and healthcare insecurity, NETWORK Statement on Failure to Extend Healthcare Credits and Provide SNAP Benefits by November 1, and with Federal Unionist Network: WATCH: Federal workers rally against SNAP cutoff amid shutdown
• Hunger Free America on CNN: USDA eases SNAP cuts, allowing larger partial benefits in November
• First Focus on Children: Release SNAP funds to feed children, advocate urges the Trump Administration
• Zero to Three: Tell Congress: Babies Need Access to Food
• Via National PTA: K-12 Organizations Urge Congress and the Administration to Ensure the Continuation of SNAP Funding During Shutdown of the Federal Government
• AFL-CIO and 26 labor unions: Letter Calling on Agriculture Department to Make Sure Families Don’t Go Hungry
• UFCW: UFCW Warns Reduced SNAP Payments Not Enough for Families & Food Workers
• Alliance to End Hunger statement: Alliance to End Hunger Urges USDA to Fully Fund SNAP, Calls on Congress to Negotiate an End to Government Shutdown
• NCJW: When Government Fails, NCJW Steps Up: Local Advocates Mobilize Nationwide to Feed Families as SNAP Benefits Remain Suspended, Instagram post from November 3 on full SNAP benefits, and NCJW to USDA: Release Emergency Funds and Restore Nutrition Assistance for Millions of Families
• FCNL: The Causes and Consequences of the Government Shutdown, Explained
• NASW: Looming SNAP Crisis and NASW Sends Petition to President Trump, Congressional Leaders Urging Funding for SNAP
• NWLC: The Trump Administration Is Taking Food Away from Families Because They Want to, Ahead of SNAP Funding Deadline, New NWLC Data Shows Widespread Food Insecurity Among U.S. Families, and visual from their Nov. 3 projection on the USDA building
• MomsRising: People are Hungry and Hurting. Stop the Lies, Threats and Delays and Fully Fund SNAP and SNAP/WIC social media stories
• CSPI: Tell the Federal Government: Fully Fund SNAP Now!
• CAP: 5 Ways the Trump Administration is Forcing Families to Go Hungry
• NCOA: urging policymakers to act swiftly to protect this critical lifeline and ensure no older adult goes hungry
• Circle of Protection: Statement from Christian Leaders in the Circle of Protection on SNAP and USDA
• APHSA: November 4 Letter on process and challenges of issuing partial benefits
• CLASP: White House and Congress Manufactured a Crisis that Threatens Jobs, Food Assistance, and Head Start and Will Increase Health Care Costs and Fading to Invisible: Why Ending the USDA Food Security Report Makes Hunger in America Invisible
• RESULTS: You can erase the data, but you can’t erase me and Media Action: Protect food assistance and health care
• CHN Action: Demand Congress pressure the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP, Tell Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins: Release SNAP reserves for November and Governors must stand up to Trump and demand SNAP funding for November

The administration can and must fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, and bring the shutdown to an end by agreeing to bipartisan negotiations with Congressional leaders looking to address rising costs of living. Grassroots activists have generated over 151,200 emails to decision-makers in the last two weeks, calling for full funding of SNAP benefits. We call on Congress to put constituents – and human needs — first and demand the administration fully fund SNAP for November.