We’re 30 days into the government shutdown, and congressional Republicans don’t seem to care enough about their constituents to compromise and put an end to it. On Nov. 1, about 42 million Americans will lose access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), meaning more than 1 in 10 people in the United States could struggle to pay for food next month.

It would take $9.2 billion to cover food stamp costs for November. The U.S. Department of Agriculture currently has about $6 billion in a contingency fund for emergencies like this, yet Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claims that USDA can’t tap into that money to cover some of those expenses.

It’s so dire that Democratic attorneys general across the country have

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