LANSDALE — Montgomery County officials designated $500,000 in food assistance funds Friday as the federal government shutdown threatens benefits for thousands of people.
The stalemate in Washington, D.C. will reach its one-month mark on Saturday, the same day the clock winds down on funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture indicated in a post on the government website that “there will be no benefits issued Nov. 1.”
In a press conference Friday at the Lansdale-based nonprofit Manna on Main Street, county officials slammed legislators in the nation’s capitol amid the ongoing budgetary stalemate…