Do you want more of that (increasing need of Americans on Food Banks) when the Republicans have a good chance to take the Oval Office after knowing the Food Bank crisis began under the Trump Administration ???
Seriously, this is like listening to the Covidiots who still refuse to acknowledge the Pandemic began under the Trump administration with government shutdowns, school closures, mask mandates, and mile-long car lines at Food Banks.
The Food Bank issue
will not go away under the Republicans...it will only increase especially with a very religious House speaker who will not lift a finger to improve the infrastructure needed to get food to the Food Banks.
U.S. food banks warn of strain as Republicans seek food aid cuts
April 21 (Reuters) - Food banks across the United States are straining to meet spiking demand as high food costs and shrinking federal benefits drive scores of Americans to depend on free groceries, just as Republicans seek to narrow access to food assistance.
President Joe Biden, who this week criticized Republicans' proposals to further cut benefits in order to shrink the country's deficit, pledged last year to
end hunger in the U.S. by 2030.
Food banks in Atlanta, New Jersey, Ohio, California, and Washington State and national anti-hunger groups told Reuters that demand is rising because of inflation and
the end of a temporary expansion of federal food assistance benefits that kept millions out of poverty during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Four food banks told Reuters that demand is up between 46 and 125% since last spring, and that visits to their pantries are as high or higher than they were at the height of the pandemic.
More than 11.4 million households collected free groceries in early April, up 15% from a year ago, according to data from the Census Bureau.
"It feels like we've moved on from the pandemic," said Leslie Bacho, CEO of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, which served 480,000 people in March – up 92% over last year. "But for food banks, we're still deep in a crisis."
Republicans in Congress are considering cuts to food assistance as one way to shrink federal spending as
lawmakers debate whether to raise the country's borrowing limit...
Currently, adults aged 18 to 50 without dependents must work or participate in a job training program at least 20 hours per week to receive SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, for more than three months.
McCarthy's plan would raise that age to 56. Republicans have often proposed stiffer work requirements for SNAP to lower program costs.
Biden, a Democrat,
slammed McCarthy's proposal on Wednesday and warned it would harm low-income Americans.
Anti-hunger advocates told Reuters that policies that make it more difficult for people to access SNAP could put further strain on food banks and other emergency food providers.
"Making [work] requirements harder only worsens hunger," said Heather Taylor, managing director of Bread for the World, a Christian anti-hunger group.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...in-republicans-seek-food-aid-cuts-2023-04-21/
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The new religious speaker shares the same proposals as McCarthy does...this agenda the Republicans will push aggressively when they're back in control from the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election...the agenda of cutting back on the resources & costs of the Food Bank along with making it much harder for Americans to get food bank social assistance.
You Reap what you Sow...do not bitch about what you wanted in comparison to what you have today. Simply, the long car lines today will get much longer.
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