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Other nutrition programs like the Women, Infants and Children program, or WIC, and programs that provide school lunches have enough money to continue into March, Lipps said.

USDA said they will immediately start looking into options to provide benefits in March as soon as February benefits are set. Perdue said he encourages congressional leaders to fully fund USDA before another solution is necessary.

\"We've provided an additional month of SNAP benefits with this solution, I believe that gives Congress ample time to act,\" he told reporters.

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