“We are in some pretty gall darn uncertain times,” Nick Maestas, owner of New Mexican eatery Muchachos in Lincoln, Nebraska, wrote on Instagram this week.
He is specifically referring to the now-29-day federal government shutdown — and the impending cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food aid to 42 million Americans every month.
Amid the shutdown, the Trump administration said it cannot use emergency contingency funds to continue covering SNAP benefits, NPR reported earlier this week, meaning about 1 in 8 U.S. residents will not receive their benefits beginning November 1…