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Nearly 2 million Illinois residents depend on SNAP to help pay for groceries. As the government shutdown continues, they're scrambling to find other ways to feed their families.
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The hearing comes two days before the U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it can't continue funding it due to the shutdown.
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