Bay Area food banks warn millions of children and seniors in California will go hungry under Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

Bay Area food banks are sounding the alarm about proposed cuts to a critical federal food assistance program that could result in the loss of up to 9.5 billion meals per year nationally, leaving more families hungry and further straining already overwhelmed hunger-relief nonprofits.

Congressional Republicans, through the budget reconciliation bill, are looking to make drastic cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides food benefits to more than 42 million Americans.