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Treasury Secretary Scott Besant says SNAP food assistant benefits could restart as soon as midweek.

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

So it could be done by Wednesday.

Could be.

Speaking there on CNN's State of the Union, this after two federal judges last week

told the Trump administration, it has to use billions of dollars in reserve money

for the more than 40 million people on SNAP.

Bessent says the administration won't appeal the rulings, but the suspension of

SNAP benefits means food banks are getting slammed with people. At a food pantry in the Bronx,

volunteer Joseph Rettler tells the Associated Press that the lines are getting very long.

It's real bad now. It's so much people, it goes all the way around the block to McDonald's. It's like a whole

square block. We're talking about close to two or three blocks all around the whole block.

Snap benefits ended for millions of people yesterday. President Trump ordered the Pentagon to plan for

possible military action in Nigeria in response to violent attacks that Trump says amounts to the persecution of Christians there.

Nigeria pushed back on the allegations saying both Christians and Muslims are affected.

And peers Emmanuel Aiken Woto has more.

President Trump warned that if Nigeria continues to allow the killing of Christians,

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