Within days, tens of millions of low-income Americans may lose assistance for food, child care and utilities if the federal government remains shut down. Many antipoverty programs were already in the cross hairs of Republicans before the shutdown began, and Trump’s expansive domestic policy law that passed this summer cut SNAP funding by $186 billion over the next decade, in part by tightening eligibility and reducing benefits. Photos by Hannah Yoon, eff Swensen and Micah Green for The New York Times. #SNAP #foodstamps #gov #shutdown