California National Guard to support food banks due to expected food assistance delays

Michigan food banks brace for SNAP ‘crisis.’ How to get or give help

With 1.4 million residents facing SNAP benefit delays, Michigan food charities say they’re already seeing more demand. Here’s how you can find or give help.

Bay Area food banks wrestle with taking California National Guard help

For the Second Harvest of Silicon Valley food bank in Santa Clara County, the California National Guard were “lifesavers” during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, said CEO Leslie Bacho. Some 200 Guard troops filled in for the nonprofit’s hundreds of volunteers who were under stay-at-home orders. They packed, loaded and distributed meals to people who suddenly found themselves out of work or in desperate need of help to feed themselves a…

Utah Food Bank says filling food assistance gap will take ‘all of us coming together’

A volunteer reaches for broccolini at the food pantry run by Good Neighbors Community Kitchen and Food Pantry in East Providence, Rhode Island on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. The food pantry saw high demand with the looming possibility that funding will run out Nov. 1 for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because of the federal government shutdown. (Photo by Michael Salerno/Rhode Island Current)The Utah Food Bank is working to bring in …

Hilton to Newsmax: Newsom's National Guard Deployment 'Pathetic' and Hypocritical

In California right now, we have people lining up from 5 p.m. the previous evening around the block, staying overnight to get food, Hilton said. And now he's bragging about protecting food banks that are only needed because of his own policies.

As SNAP benefits become the next shutdown casualty, food banks brace for impact

Delays to food assistance for November are all but assured as the federal budget stalemate continues.

Newsom deploys National Guard to support food banks amid government shutdown

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking action to address the food crisis affecting millions of Californians due to the ongoing government shutdown.