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Washington’s food banks are stretched thin - Rev. Bolerjack
Washington’s food banks are stretched thin - Rev. Bolerjack

A few days ago, I looked in a bag of food packed at the Tukwila Pantry, the food bank hosted by our church. There was a jar of chili sauce, two onions, and some coffee creamer. How do you make a meal out of that? And yet that’s what we’re expecting the families who rely on food banks to do.

Families like Julia’s are already feeling the cuts
Families like Julia’s are already feeling the cuts

“Every month, I receive my basic food package, which includes eggs, milk, fruit, and bread – enough to last a week. I have already seen reductions in the program. Just last month, we were provided fewer groceries than before.”  That’s what Julia Perez, a mother in Yakima, shared at our recent press conference about how her family is feeling the effects of the federal cuts to SNAP. She’s not the only one.

The rich got a tax cut, we got a shutdown
The rich got a tax cut, we got a shutdown

When big businesses and billionaires wanted tax cuts, the federal government delivered. But now, when every day people like you and me need Congress to act so our healthcare premiums don’t skyrocket, they’ve shut down. Make no mistake, this government shutdown won’t harm the wealthiest of Americans, but it will add strain to workers and families that are just trying to get by.

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