{"id":254975,"date":"2025-05-24T07:40:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/feeding-the-gulf-coast-warns-of-serious-impacts-from-proposed-federal-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T07:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:40:25","slug":"feeding-the-gulf-coast-warns-of-serious-impacts-from-proposed-federal-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=254975","title":{"rendered":"Feeding the Gulf Coast warns of serious impacts from proposed federal cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Feeding the Gulf Coast, the food bank serving vulnerable communities across South Mississippi, South Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle, is raising urgent concerns about the proposed budget reconciliation package recently advanced by the House Budget Committee.<\/p>\n

This legislation slashes SNAP by an estimated $300 billion and Medicaid by an estimated $880 billion over the next ten years, impacting tens of millions of Americans, while also proposing unprecedented authority to revoke nonprofit status and reducing nonprofits\u2019 ability to raise funding by introducing changes to charitable tax deductions. These programs are lifelines for\u00a0vulnerable Americans, including families, seniors, veterans, and individuals with disabilities \u2014 and shifts the burden to nonprofits already stretched thin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAlong the Gulf Coast, we know how to prepare for a storm,\u201d said Michael Ledger, president and CEO of Feeding the Gulf Coast. \u201cThis legislation has all the ingredients for a crisis: a nearly 3-year lapsed Farm Bill, reduced access to nutritious food, and threats to the nonprofits that serve on the front lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposed bill also includes provisions that shift 5 percent of SNAP benefit costs to already-strained state budgets \u2014 an estimated $475 million across our Gulf Coast states. If states are unable or unwilling to absorb these costs these programs will suffer further. It remains unclear whether states are prepared to shoulder this burden or how they would fund it. It would also introduce administrative barriers that may disqualify people who are already working or caring for family members. In Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, more than 70 percent of households receiving SNAP include children or older neighbors, making the potential impact even more devastating.<\/p>\n

One in 6 of our neighbors, including 1 in 5 children, along the Gulf Coast are food insecure. In half of our counties, the number of children facing hunger is even higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNewly released data shows an increase in our neighbors facing hunger. We are seeing more first-time visitors\u2014hardworking people\u2014at a time when discretionary federal funding sources and nutrition programs have been reduced or are coming under threat,\u201d said Ledger. \u201cIn this critical time, we need strong federal support, not cuts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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