OUR FORGOTTEN BOROUGH | Bronx food pantries, aid groups brace for surge in need as SNAP cuts loom

Across the country, food pantries, providers, and advocacy organizations are bracing for the full impact of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed last summer, which made drastic changes and cuts to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

In New York City, this effort is especially crucial in the Bronx, which has the highest hunger, food insecurity, and poverty rates of New York City’s five boroughs.