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Food banks across the US, from New Mexico to Oregon to Illinois, are seeing massive increases in demand as the unprecedented federal nutrition aid cuts that [the GOP] President signed into law last summer take hold, stripping benefits from millions of Americans amid elevated grocery costs—a recipe for disaster.

“Our freezers are getting empty,” Eddie Nelson, the manager of a food bank in Dallas, Oregon…[told a] Public Broadcasting reporter earlier this week. … [&] noted that the line for the food bank “stretches out the door and around the corner at the end of the month, when federal food stamp benefits dry up and families struggle to fill their pantries.”