"You can't take away from the most needy people in the country. It's inhumane,"
"It's a lack of empathy and it's on all their hands."
"SNAP isn't just a social safety net for families. It's also a local economic engine,"
Ryan Sprankle welcomed President Donald Trump to one of the three grocery stores his family owns near Pittsburgh while Trump was on the campaign trail. Sprankle says delayed SNAP benefits during the government shutdown hurt his customers and his small independent chain. The Trump administration froze funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program at the end of October, impacting food access for some 42 million Americans. The U.S. Senate passed legislation to reopen the government and replenish SNAP funds, but the U.S. House still must consider the bill and the timing of benefit resumption remains unclear. In 2024 SNAP recipients redeemed a little more than $96 billion, with 74% spent at superstores and supermarkets and about 14% at smaller grocery and convenience stores. Many grocers and convenience stores operate on slim profit margins of roughly 1% to 2%, making SNAP redemptions a crucial local economic driver.
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