USDA tells grocery stores: No special discounts for SNAP recipients

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) emailed market stores prohibiting them from offering discounts to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients amid the authorities shutdown.  The email, shared Sunday by MSNBC’s Catherine Rampell to societal level X, said that market stores “must connection eligible goods astatine the aforesaid prices and connected the aforesaid presumption and…