New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- As Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - America's biggest food aid program for low-income, unemployed Americans - faces funding uncertainty, sparking fears of starting a hunger crisis amid the ongoing government shutdown, two federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to continue the funding using emergency reserve - two federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island ruled.

The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation's social safety net - and it costs about $8 billion per month nationally.

The ruling directing the Trump administration to use the emergency reserves to fnd the food aid program to feed millions of Americans has come a day before the US Departme...