{"id":272643,"date":"2025-11-05T08:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/272643\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:23:10","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-launches-food-bank-to-help-those-affected-by-snap-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/272643\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Launches Food Bank to Help Those Affected by SNAP Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live! is lending a hand to those affected by recent cuts and freezes<\/a> to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. On Tuesday afternoon, Kimmel announced that he and his show created a food donation center \u2014 named the \u201cBig, Beautiful Foot Bank,\u201d in reference to President Donald Trump\u2019s so-called Big, Beautiful Bill<\/a> \u2014 to aid those in need.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe food bank is being hosted at the ABC show\u2019s backlot in Hollywood and is set to gather both food and donations for local orgs St. Joseph Center and the Los Angeles Food Bank. \u201cCutting SNAP benefits creates uncertainty for American children, seniors, and families,\u201d Kimmel wrote on Instagram. \u201cTo support our community members in need, we\u2019re starting a donation center.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe center is set to be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT at the Hollywood lot\u2019s 6901 Hawtorn Avenue address. In his post, Kimmel listed low-sodium soups and stews, canned tuna, chicken and salmon, nut butters, low-sugar cereals, protein bars, pasta, and rice as \u201cmost-needed foods.\u201d The center also requested crackers, fruit snacks, trail mix, facial cleansers, oral hygiene items, soap, deodorant, and feminine products for those in need. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s unclear what the future holds for SNAP, which helps feed low-income individuals and families across the country. The program was frozen on Nov. 1 over a lapse in funding due to the government shutdown. A federal judge on Friday\u00a0issued<\/a>\u00a0a temporary restraining order blocking the administration from suspending food aid, noting the \u201cterror\u201d it has caused families, who will continue to live in fear of losing their benefits under Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

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\n\tOn Friday night, numerous late-night TV hosts took aim at Trump for hosting a Great Gatsby-themed party while SNAP benefits expired for thousands of Americans. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOn the very night SNAP benefits ended, Trump threw a\u00a0Great Gatsby-themed ode to decadence and hedonism that even Jeffrey Epstein would have thought was a little over the top,\u201d Jon Stewart said on The Daily Show<\/a>. \u201cThere were dancers, costumes, champagne \u2014 a wonderful celebration where the theme was apparently gross income inequality. The slogan of the party, as people were losing their food benefits \u2014 I shit you not \u2014 was \u2018a little party never killed nobody.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Live! is lending a hand to those affected by recent cuts and freezes to Supplemental Nutrition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,17114,11575,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-272643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","10":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}