For many Americans, a shutdown is a minor inconvenience. But for Native American tribes, it can cripple the most basic community functions. Among the programs curtailed: a food program that fed 90,000 last year. My first report of 2019, with @MitchKSmithhttps://nyti.ms/2GNmym8
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The program fed about 90,000 people last year.
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No additional federal funds will be spent on this during the shut down, according to the Department of Agriculture.https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/12/29/usda-updates-available-functions-during-lapse-funding …
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This is of great concern for Chairman Joseph Rupnick of the Prairie Band Potawatomi, a tribe of about 4,600 people headquartered on a reservation in northeast Kansas. About 100 families rely on the program, he told me.
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“Those stores will be depleted," he said of the tribe's distribution center. “When they’re going through a shutdown, they're thinking: 'I need five billion for a wall. I need dollars for this or that.' The bottom line is it always impacts the neediest people in the country.”
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