{"id":22670,"date":"2025-10-30T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22670\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:53:07","slug":"kathy-hochul-declares-state-of-emergency-for-ny-over-snap-food-stamps-freeze-during-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22670\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul declares state of emergency for NY over SNAP food stamps freeze during shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY \u2013 Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a \u201cfood emergency\u201d across the state Thursday as the federal government says <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/29\/business\/snap-benefits-will-end-soon-how-will-states-feed-millions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNAP benefits<\/a> will run dry this weekend amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/27\/business\/doordash-launches-emergency-meal-drive-as-snap-food-stamp-crisis-deepens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">federal shutdown.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to be passive observers to this,\u201d Hochul said from a food pantry in Harlem.<\/p>\n<p>The governor announced she would pump an additional $65 million in New York emergency food relief funds to keep benefits flowing after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/28\/us-news\/26-states-to-sue-usda-to-keep-snap-rolling-during-shutdown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the freeze<\/a> expected to begin Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37529702\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/new-york-gov-kathy-hochul-114305517_0d54cb.jpg\" alt=\"New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaking at a rally.\" class=\"wp-image-37529702\"  \/>Kathy Hochul declared a \u2018food emergency.\u2019 Aristide Economopoulos<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.56814701;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37529721\" width=\"925\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10-29-25-real-estate-114439197.jpg\" alt=\"A Food Bazaar supermarket with shelves of various fruits, juices, and other products, and a shopper in a winter coat with a shopping cart.\" class=\"wp-image-37529721\"  \/>A Food Bazaar in East New York. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s on top of $30 million she announced earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul said New York receives and distributes around $650 million per month for SNAP from the feds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY \u2013 Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a \u201cfood emergency\u201d across the state Thursday as the federal government says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9235,2564,426,57,9,11,10,49,51,50,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-22670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-food-stamps","9":"tag-government-shutdown","10":"tag-kathy-hochul","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}