BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — “Just feels like you’re in limbo. Like, you don’t know how things are going to go,” says SNAP recipient Jasime Backman, as she sat out from of the CAPK food bank.
Each month, more than 200,000 Kern County residents rely on SNAP and CalFresh Benefits to help put food on the table. Amid the 40-day government shutdown, SNAP recipients were fearful of where they might find their next meal.
Now, that fear has returned, with a new policy from the Trump administration. At Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins explained that the department was investigating fraud of SNAP benefits and had requested the personal information of those recipients…