(2 Jul 2025)
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San Francisco – 2 July 2025
1. San Francisco – Marin Food Bank exterior
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanis Crosby, Executive Director, San Francisco – Marin Food Bank:
"This gutting of SNAP, this gutting of America’s most effective anti-poverty, anti-hunger tool, it’s going to mean an increase in need. And it’s gonna be a tsunami of need. And food banks are not set up. We project that there will be about 25,000 more households just in San Francisco and Marin that are at imminent risk of losing SNAP benefits as a direct result of this bill. And that doesn’t account for any additional Medicaid cuts. So we’re extremely concerned about the impacts of this legislation. We’re extremely concern about the participants in our community who are already struggling to make ends meet and how much harder it’s gonna be because of this bill."
3. Various food bank recipients pick up groceries
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanis Crosby, Executive Director, San Francisco – Marin Food Bank:
"When people are taking those SNAP dollars, they’re spending it in their local community. They’re making sure that their families have funds to stay healthy and to buy nourishing food of their choosing in their local market. That creates local jobs. So the economic multiplier is that every dollar that is provided in SNAP benefits means at least $1.50 in local economic activity. So SNAP is not only about ending hunger and poverty, It’s a local economic development tool, and it just makes sense."
5. Various forklifts moving donated boxes and crates of food around inside food bank
STORYLINE:
Food banks across the nation are sounding the alarm over President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” a sweeping tax and spending package moving through the House of Representatives.
While the proposal offers significant funding increases for defense and immigration enforcement, it also slashes nearly $300 billion from SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a move that could impact millions of Americans who rely on food assistance.
Community food banks and health advocates say reduced SNAP funding not only strips nutritional support from vulnerable families, but also hurts local economies, rural grocery stores, and public health.
With the House targeting a vote before the July 4 recess, food‑security advocates are urging lawmakers to consider an amendment or delay that would safeguard vulnerable Americans dependent on SNAP.
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