TuesdayOctober 28, 2025

QC braces for SNAP food crisis amid fed shutdown

River Bend urges lawmakers to fund program
By: Dave Thompson|October 28, 2025
|6 min read
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    • River Bend Food Bank President and CEO Chris Ford is shown at River Bend at 4010 Kimmel Drive, Davenport, on Tuesday, Oct. 28. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

    People will be hurt and people who need food will go hungry because of the federal government shutdown.

    Those were the messages delivered by officials with the River Bend Food Bank  and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP) during a news conference Tuesday morning, Oct. 28, at the food bank headquarters at…

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