Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The Trump administration says it could begin funding this nationwide SNAP program again this week. As NPR's Joe Hernandez reports, it comes in response to the rulings of two federal judges about whether the government has to use emergency funds to keep the food aid flowing.

Speaking on CNN's State of the Union, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said funding could

resume by midweek.

President Trump wants to make sure that people get their food benefits.

So it could be done by Wednesday?

Could be.

Money for the federal program ran out on Saturday.

A day before, a federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the government to use emergency money to fund SNAP benefits as soon as possible.

The Trump administration previously argued that it could not use contingency funds to keep it afloat.

Nearly 42 million Americans rely on SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The federal government has been shut down for more than a month.

Joe Hernandez, NPR News.

Another transfer of human remains took place today in Gaza.

Israel's prime minister's office says the Red Cross has transferred three bodies,

believed to be those of hostages taken

on October 7, 2023. It's a latest exchange under a U.S. brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

And here's Lauren Freyer has more from Tel Aviv. Hamas's armed wings as it located these three

bodies hours earlier in a tunnel in southern Gaza. They're undergoing forensic tests to make sure they are indeed the bodies of Israeli hostages. That turned out not to be the case with three other bodies transferred from Gaza earlier this weekend. For every hostage body returned to Israel, 15 Palestinian bodies are to be returned to Gaza in exchange. But Israel

accuses Hamas of delaying these transfers. Hamas says recovering bodies has been difficult,

though, because of the extent of destruction. If tests do show these latest remains, are those of

hostages? That means eight hostages remain in Gaza, all of them deceased. Lauren

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