President Trump has the power to keep 42 million Americans on food assistance, but so far he's refusing to release the money. On Saturday, those Americans will lose food aid known as SNAP benefits because of the shutdown. The administration is basically saying their hands are tied and there's nothing they can do about it. But that's not true. We know because Trump funded these benefits in a previous shutdown during his first term. In that shutdown, his administration took money from an expired government fu ...