Under a new rule tucked into Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, young adults aging out of foster care must work, volunteer or attend school for at least 80 hours per month to qualify for benefits.

Several restaurants are offering discounted or free meals, and assistance is available through food banks and these community groups.

Effects of the pause will be especially widespread in Texas, which has the highest population of food insecure people in the country.

Hancock highlighted a new regional economic dashboard, dubbed “TexStats”, now available to view on the comptroller’s website. The program displays various economic data points for specific cities or regions within Texas.

The calls to the Republican governor came as the food stamp program was set to run out of funding amid the government shutdown.

The Texas Longhorns are officially heating up. The Longhorns held on to a narrow lead to beat the Vanderbilt Commodores and keep their College Football Playoff

The ongoing government shutdown means more than $600 million per month won’t go to millions of Texas SNAP beneficiaries who pump that money into the state economy.

The money will go to the North Texas Food Bank and food boxes for furloughed federal workers and for Dallas County residents who are right now without SNAP benefits and for now will get less than what they normally receive.