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ELKO, Nev. — On a cold morning in early February, Tammy King prepared and loaded boxes and bags of vegetables, fruits, milk, frozen meat and snacks into cars lined up outside the Friends in Service Helping food pantry, known in rural northeastern Nevada as FISH.

After the cuts, payments will go down to about $6.10 per person, per day. That's around $2 a meal.

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Nearly 30 million Americans who got extra government help with grocery bills during the pandemic will soon see that aid shrink

Trump admin budget hawk Russ Vought "has emerged as one of the central voices shaping the looming showdown"

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Millions of Americans will find it harder to put enough food on the table starting in March 2023, after a COVID-19 pandemic-era boost to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits comes to an end. Congress mandated this change in budget legislation it passed in late December 2022.

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Department of Agriculture official testified Thursday that some of the agency’s food programs are being overburdened in the push to feed needy families.

As the cost of living in the U.S. has gone up, government subsidies to help people pay for basics have disappeared one-by-one. Up next on the chopping block: Emergency allotments of a food-assistance program that supports 30 million Americans living in 32 states.

Congress is seeking legislative fixes to the scourge of military hunger, which is a persistent problem for the Pentagon.