Carts full of groceries wait to be given to people in need at a Miami food bank before SNAP benefits are due to end because of the federal government shutdown. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images	
On Saturday, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — also known as food stamps — will run out for more than 40 million Americans. Those millions of Americans are collateral damage from what is thus far the second-longest government shutdown in US history. 
But even as the looming deadline has underscored the very real impact of the deadlock in Washington, DC, it has also led to the...
                                                        
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