Newsom said he’s fast-tracking $80 million for food banks in nearly every county in the state.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he will deploy National Guard troops to support food banks in November, a move that comes in light of anticipated delays to federal food assistance amid the government shutdown.
About 40 million low-income people across the U.S., including roughly 5.5 million in California, receive federal food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. But Newsom, a Democrat, warned families should expect an interruption to those benefits next month.
“This is serious, this is urgent – and requires immediate action,” he said.
That’s a starkly different mission from President Donald Trump’s deployment of California National Guard troops to guard federal buildings and immigration agents in Southern California as part of his mass deportation agenda. He’s also deployed or tried to send guard troops to Chicago, Washington, D.
