LOS ANGELES (CNS) – With food assistance benefits being paused for millions of people across California beginning Saturday due to the federal government shutdown, local officials are swinging into action to provide help.
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On Friday, two federal judges separately told the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it must begin using billions of dollars in contingency funding to provide federal food assistance to needy families despite the shutdown — but gave the agency until Monday to decide how to do so…