Dear New Yorkers,
The Trump administration has cancelled more than $1.3 million in federal emergency grants awarded to a Brooklyn food pantry to feed migrants, after advising the nonprofit it was suspected of violating U.S. law by serving food to “illegal aliens.”
The move leaves the Campaign Against Hunger — which each year serves 17 million meals to over 1.5 million New Yorkers, including thousands of new arrivals — in a lurch.
“To take that much money from any organization that does not have an endowment or a large budget is to take food out of the mouths of those that need it the most,” said Melony Samuels, the CEO and founder of Bedford-Stuyvesant nonprofit.
The nonprofit says it has already spent about $600,000, most of it on food, for which it may not be reimbursed. Samuels said she wakes up in the early morning, dreading the day to come, her mind spinning with the decisions she’ll have to make.
“What am I going to do? Will I be able to meet the needs? How many people will be turned away? Are we going to ration the amount of food?” she said.
Read more here about the food pantry who lost its FEMA grants because it served migrants.
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