Nearly 900,000 Arizonans rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — or SNAP — for food assistance.
Starting Saturday, those funds will disappear after the USDA notified states last Friday that it’s suspending SNAP due to the government shutdown.
Attorney General Kris Mayes is worried about the short notice.
"Many families will be walking into grocery stores with their EBT cards. Their SNAP cards believing that they're loaded and they will get to the checkout counter and not be able to pay for the groceries, I think. Because I think not enough people know this is about to happen," she said.
Mayes, along with 21 Democratic attorneys general, sued the Trump administration, alleging the illegal suspension of SNAP.
