I have the kind of husband who doesn’t ask questions — not even when six giant cans of infant formula show up at our house on Halloween even though we don’t have a baby. Without raising an eyebrow, he carried the bags in and went back to making sourdough pretzels.
If he had asked, I would have stated that I was done waiting for “someone” to do “something” about the government shutdown and the millions of people who were at risk of not receiving the SNAP benefits they need in November because of it.
Elphaba Mode activated.
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The school that our children attend has a high population of food-insecure families. The local food bank sets up tables in the school’s parking lot once a month. When two federal judges ordered Trump to continue food assistance programs last Friday, I breathed a sigh of relief for our neighborhood.
