(2 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 2 July 2025
1. Various of Mike Manning walking through Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Manning, President, Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank:
"Well the Big Beautiful Bill is going to have a significant impact on us potentially. There's going to be lots of changes to SNAP, SNAP outreach, SNAP education. It's going to probably increase their need to come to us for more assistance, and it may also increase the number of people that have to come to us for assistance."
3. Various of warehouse worker stacking cans of food
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Manning, President, Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank:
"The biggest concern is not being able to help people. That's all we do. That's our mission is to help feed people who really need assistance."
5. Various of Mike Manning walking through Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Manning, President, Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank:
"Our funding has already been cut because of the act by reducing the amount of food we can get from the federal government. So it's creating new demands for us to buy food and try to acquire more food as as much as we possibly can."
7. Various of Darryl Louis loading boxes
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Darryl Louis, Volunteer, Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank:
"And you see there's such a need and you see that okay now part of that need is not being fulfilled. That's really disheartening to know that, you know, you're helping less people when actually look at them and we should be helping more people."
9. Mid of Rikeeia Smith walking through grocery store
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rikeeia Smith, SNAP recipient:
"It makes no sense how he just bulldozing everything. And it just felt like he want the rich to stay rich and the poor to stay poor."
11. Close up of Smith opening a refrigerator door in store
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rikeeia Smith, SNAP recipient:
"It will be hard but what can I do? He's our president."
13. Wide of Smith walking to cash register
STORYLINE:
At some 887 pages, President Trump's tax and spending cuts package is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.
The bill would extend and make permanent various individual and business tax breaks Republicans passed in Trump’s first term, plus temporarily add new tax breaks, such as no income taxes on tips and overtime.
It would also include new 80-hour-a-month work requirements for many adults receiving Medicaid and applies existing work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, to more beneficiaries.
States with less resources like Louisiana may be forced to pick up more of the cost for food benefits.
"Our biggest concern is not being able to help people" says Mike Manning with the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank.
He says th... [truncated]
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