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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- As the authorities shutdown drags on, present the longest successful U.S. history, Californians are feeling the pinch.
"We don't cognize if our nutrient stamps are going to travel through," Nicole told Action News connected Friday.
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She was 1 of 75 who lined up successful Clovis for a nutrient container giveaway. The lawsuit was expected to past 2 hours, but each 75 boxes were gone wrong 25 minutes.
As the caretaker of an autistic pistillate whose $192 monthly SNAP payment has not travel through, Nicole has had to measurement successful to marque ends meet.
"We're having to walk our ain currency for her, and she needs the food," Nicole said. "You know, she eats 3 times a day, truthful it's a necessity."
The nutrient boxes provided by the Fresno American Indian Health Project travel amid an unsettling back-and-forth.
SNAP benefits primitively ran retired connected November 1st. Two judges past ordered the Trump medication to money SNAP, and the president agreed to bash truthful astatine 65 percent.
On Thursday, a tribunal ordered President Trump to supply afloat backing to California recipients. That wealth deed immoderate EBT cards precocious Thursday night
But connected Friday morning, the Trump medication appealed, asking a tribunal to halt the erstwhile rulings. A sheet of 3 judges denied it.
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"This truly is simply a precise antithetic and rapidly evolving situation," Fresno County's Department of Social Services Director Sanja Bugay told Action News.
Her section administers CalFresh, the state's sanction for the national SNAP program, for astir 250,000 radical successful Fresno County.
"Everybody who was expected to get their benefits from the 1st done the 7th should beryllium getting them today," Bugay said.
The EBT cards link recipients to nutrient astatine market stores, farmers' markets, and immoderate restaurants. They tin besides bargain seeds and plants to turn astatine home.
"They're each families successful poverty," Bugay said of the recipients. "Some of those families work, and this is genuinely a supplemental nutrition. And for immoderate of these families and individuals, this is the entirety of their food."
Amid the Washington gridlock, Nicole feels stuck successful the middle.
"This should beryllium a priority," she said. "We should person our nutrient for everybody careless of what's going connected successful the government."
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