{"id":23153,"date":"2025-10-30T21:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23153\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T21:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:18:10","slug":"hochul-declares-state-of-emergency-as-federal-food-assistance-cuts-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23153\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul declares state of emergency as federal food assistance cuts loom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gov. Kathy Hochul visits Common Pantry in New York, NY, in anticipation of the looming cut-off of SNAP benefits. Photo courtesy of Susan Watts\/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul<\/p>\n

Oct 30, 2025 \u2014 <\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency in response to the potential lapse of funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, which are set to expire Nov. 1 due to the ongoing federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s declaration<\/a>, announced Thursday, will allocate an additional $65 million in funding for emergency food assistance provided by food banks and pantries around the state. The governor is also deploying Empire State Service Corps and SUNY Corps Members<\/a> to help local food banks.<\/p>\n

The SNAP program, commonly known as food stamps, is federally funded, but money directed through the program is administered by individual states. New York distributes about $650 million in food assistance benefits<\/a> each month for almost 3 million New Yorkers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Given the scale of SNAP, Hochul and other governors across the country say state governments cannot replace funding lost from cuts to the program. Officials from 25 states filed a lawsuit earlier this week<\/a> urging President Donald Trump to continue funding SNAP through federal contingency funding.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has argued it does not have the authority to use contingency funding because of the government shutdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike Washington Republicans, I won\u2019t sit idly by as families struggle to put food on the table,\u201d Hochul said in a statement. \u201cThis is a food emergency, and I want to unleash every tool at our disposal to keep New Yorkers from going hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the emergency declaration, the state will provide $40 million in new funding for the Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides emergency food relief and nutrition services to food-insecure populations through food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.<\/p>\n

Hochul is also directing $25 million in additional funds for Nourish NY, a program that connects surplus agricultural products to food relief organizations like food banks and food pantries.<\/p>\n

Hochul said she expects the new investment to provide around 40 million meals. The announcement is part of a series of emergency food funding<\/a> distributed by the state over the past two weeks, totalling $106 million.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s emergency measures are expected to take effect immediately and remain in place until federal food assistance funding is restored.<\/p>\n

David Escobar is a\u00a0Report For America Corps Member.<\/a> He reports on diversity issues in the Adirondacks through a partnership between North Country Public Radio and Adirondack Explorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul visits Common Pantry in New York, NY, in anticipation of the looming cut-off of SNAP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13827,1984,9,11,10,49,51,50,10604],"class_list":{"0":"post-23153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-food-bank","9":"tag-hochul","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-state","14":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-state-news","16":"tag-snap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","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=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}