Brian Walker showed up Friday at The Kansas Food Bank at 5:30 a.m., tall coffee cup in hand and a sense of dread swelling in his chest.
By Monday, the federal agency that hands out federal food assistance was slated to stop all payments to millions of America’s needy because of the government shutdown.
Walker and his Kansas Food Bank, which he’s led for 29 years, were scrambling to respond. A quarter-million people who come to food pantries in 85 of Kansas’s 105 counties would go hungry. Because of politics…