Orange County residents could soon lose their homes due to changes to federal housing programs while many struggle to put food on the table amid a federal government shutdown – one that’s poised to become the longest in the country’s history.
Local food banks are grappling to get funding to keep food on shelves amid what is now the longest federal government shutdown in US history, even after the Trump administration announced they would be distributing partial food stamp benefits after a judge ordered them to.
“Some of our distributions are seeing twice as many people as they normally do and signing up three times as many new families as they had this time last year,” Second Harvest Food Bank of OC CEO Claudia Bonilla Keller warned Orange County Supervisors Tuesday…