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ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps more than 47,000 St. Louis County families every month. With the SNAP deadline looming, county officials have launched a drive to collect some goods to help families with babies who will lose those important benefits. St. Louis County Executive Sam Page said the county will do what it can to help residents during the federal government shutdown. "Now we've had a month of this, we're at the leading edge of the time when things are going to get bad really, really fast,” he said. “And until this gets sorted out, St. Louis County will do what we can with our limited resources, we're in tough budget times ourselves, and we have to make tough choices, but we're going to try to step up and help these families as much as we can." The county is accepting baby formula, diapers, and wipes at any branch of the St. Louis County Library or one of its three health centers: The current federal government shutdown is at 30 days and counting as of this story's initial publication, making it the second-longest shutdown involving furloughed workers in the nation's history. The longest shutdown lasted for 35 days from December 2018 to January 2019 during President Donald Trump's first term in office.
