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

Late Tuesday afternoon, Dallas County and Dallas City officials decided to make a big donation to help North Texans struggling to put food on the table.

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

The Central Texas Food Bank expects to spend roughly four times its monthly budget to support Austin-area SNAP recipients.

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.

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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.