Advertisement“We started getting a lot of calls from people who’ve never accessed food assistance,” Cyndi Kirkhart, the CEO of Facing Hunger food bank based in Huntington, West Virginia, told HuffPost. In fact, the increasingly dire state of hunger in the United States can, by many metrics, be blamed on Trump. The Trump administration is playing politics with SNAP benefits, leaving states and recipients in the dark. AdvertisementEven more confusion came on Friday afternoon, when USDA said it would in fact pay SNAP benefits in full for November. In the meantime, food banks, a lifeline of last resort for many, have been straining under the weight of the Trump-fueled hunger crisis.
