With the potential for a partial federal government shutdown looming this weekend, officials across the states are bracing for possible impact.
A series of spending measures to keep various sectors of the federal government funded is tied up in Washington D.C. with a Democrat-controlled Senate at odds with a Republican-controlled House.
While Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies are set for October, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warned what a shutdown could mean to nearly 168,000 beneficiaries of the federally-funded Women, Infants and Children nutrition program in Illinois.