{"id":22767,"date":"2025-11-02T22:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22767\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:44:06","slug":"snap-cuts-philadelphias-sharing-excess-launches-food-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22767\/","title":{"rendered":"SNAP cuts: Philadelphia\u2019s Sharing Excess launches food map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, two federal judges <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/snap-freeze-lawsuit-food-aid-deadline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ordered President Donald Trump\u2019s administration to use contingency funds<\/a> to continue SNAP benefits; however, it remains unclear when payments will resume.\n<\/p>\n<p>After the White House asked for additional guidance from the court, U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, ordered the government to report back by Monday to figure out how to fund SNAP accounts.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ehlers said his organization had been making plans for gradual reductions to SNAP after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/07\/03\/nx-s1-5454841\/house-republicans-trump-tax-bill-medicaid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cbig beautiful bill<\/a>\u201d passed in July, but that no one expected a full halt.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn hindsight, I think actually we maybe should have anticipated this because there\u2019s a lot of finger-pointing going on,\u201d Ehlers said. \u201cThis is now a topic where both sides can use it as fuel to make their points on why either Democrats or Republicans are responsible for the issues that the public is facing. And in the meantime of all the finger-pointing, the public is the one who suffers.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>Sharing Excess is also looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharingexcess.com\/get-involved\/volunteer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">additional volunteers<\/a> and donations. Ehlers said one truckload, which is roughly 30,000 pounds of food, costs $1,290 and can feed up to 80 families in a month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are asking people to consider sponsoring a truck and helping us to make [an] impact during this time,\u201d Ehlers said. \u201cWe can\u2019t do any of these distribution sites without support from the public.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, two federal judges ordered President Donald Trump\u2019s administration to use contingency funds to continue SNAP benefits;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4611,1014,69,71,70,5767],"class_list":["post-22767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-food-stamps","tag-government-shutdown","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-snap-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}