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A leader of a state food bank association says the 2018 budget resolution passed by the House of Representatives would slash funding for nutrition programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Emily Weikert Bryant, executive director of Feeding Indiana’s Hungry, says thousands of people would go hungry if SNAP and other nutrition programs lose funding.

“We saw in the last Farm Bill that the SNAP program was quite a bit of the funding, but it was also because the economy was in a place where so many people were eligible that the program was doing its job,” she says.

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