Aliss Higham

"We are going to see a big bump in the first quarter with the refunds and the real income," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

Given the program’s huge scale, the SSA issues payments in several rounds each month rather than all at once.

Democrats in the House of Representatives released emails this week that show Epstein discussing Trump.

The Empire State is home to around 688,000 veterans, the seventh-largest veteran population in the country.

Several types of benefits are paid out to veterans every month.

Trump on Wednesday signed a funding bill that ends the longest ever government shutdown, allowing SNAP benefits to resume.

The program pays out food assistance benefits to some 42 million low- and no-income Americans each month.

More than 70 million Americans depend on Social Security payments each month for income support.

The administration is now attempting to retract hundreds of millions of dollars in food assistance benefits.

Court orders, agency directives and political infighting in Washington have left SNAP in chaos.