Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said the state will fund November food aid for children, the elderly or disabled who receive food stamps as the federal government shutdown drags on. Landry and Legislative leaders announced the plan to secure funding from the Louisiana Department of Health during an Oct. 29 press conference.

The Health and Human Services secretary is standing at the opposite end of his late father’s anti-poverty legacy.

South Florida nonprofits are scrambling to build stopgap sources for thousands of food stamp recipients who may lose federal benefits starting Saturday.

Democratic-led states filed suit in federal court, arguing the Trump administration’s halt to SNAP aid during the shutdown harms millions of low-income Americans.

More than 42 million Americans are expected to lose their SNAP/food stamps benefits in November as the government shutdown continues.

The US Department of Agriculture says it will not tap into its $6 billion contingency fund to cover food stamp benefits next month, according to an agency memo obtained by CNN. That means that roughly 42 million Americans will not receive critical food assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,

The states petitioned a federal court days after the Agriculture Dept. said it would not take emergency steps to provide aid during the government shutdown.

Blaming the federal government shutdown, the Trump administration said it could not fund the benefits beginning in November.

Already, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are on furlough or working without pay across the country. Now, some key benefits programs are set to be hit.

“Show me a nation that cannot feed itself, and I’ll show you a nation in chaos,” former Senate Agriculture Committee chair Pat Roberts said in 2015. With Democrats and Republicans at a standstill with negotiations over the federal budget, communities nation-wide can’t count on the government to step in and help.