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Not getting those SNAP benefits this week.

We're going through, well, what Bill is not getting paid for November, so we can put food on the table.

Food aid for families who need help affording groceries will run out on Friday if the government doesn't reopen.

It's Monday, October 27th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.

I'm Chris Penley.

Today on the show, a retired general weighs in on America's continued killing of people in the Caribbean that it says are drug traffickers without presenting any evidence.

Also, Californians vote on new election maps that

Democrats call a direct response to the, quote, Republican power grab orchestrated by President

Trump, end quote. Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent

redistricting over the long term, and lets the people

decide.

What to know about California's Prop 50 coming up at about 15 minutes.

But first, Americans who rely on the government's SNAP program to afford groceries

will start to lose that money on Saturday, November 1st, because Congress has not

passed a spending bill to fund the government. There is a contingency fund for SNAP, but the White

House says it won't release that money because the government shutdown is not an emergency. It's a

politically manufactured crisis. Other benefits besides SNAP will also

start to dry up next month, including the Early Education Program Head Start and emergency

cash for the low-income and women, infants, and children, or WIC program. The politics are

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