The twin crises at the heart of the government shutdown fight in Washington are coming to a head. The federal food assistance ...

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund ...

Federal judges have ruled that the Trump administration must continue funding SNAP during the government shutdown. Friday's decisions came just before the Department of Agriculture planned to ...

The SNAP program has been a major piece of the U.S. social safety network since it launched as the food stamp program in 1964 ...

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and reopen the federal government. His call to end the filibuster came ...

Commentary: We cannot effectively address the flaws and improve if millions of Illinoisans lose coverage and are excluded ...