Each month, Portland resident Alicia Rogers spends the entire $191 that the federal government loads onto her SNAP card the same day the money arrives.
“The first shopping trip, it’s gone,” said Rogers, a 39-year-old single mother of two, ages 9 and 15.
But today, Rogers won’t be able to do that, as a lapse in benefits through SNAP — also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — is set to take hold for 757,000 Oregonians amid the federal shutdown. That has left Rogers in enormous angst…