Annemarie King is eating only once a day, and her husband, Randall, is picking up extra shifts at the drywall factory where he works. They are among the nearly 42 million Americans preparing for their food stamp benefits to run dry in November because of the ongoing government shutdown.

"Now we'll have to prioritize which bills we can pay and which can wait," said one mother of two about a looming freeze in food aid.

Food pantries across the state posted urgent messages for extra donations, volunteers as 600,000 Coloradans stand to lose benefits

West Virginia became the first state to implement a state-wide food stamp program in 1964, and now mountaineers across the state are losing that safety net.

This spring, the Trump administration cut about $500 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture funding that went toward the Emergency Food Assistance Program, which supplements states’ food bank