Top legislative Democrats in Tallahassee are imploring Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to help the nearly 3 million Floridians set to lose federal food assistance benefits this coming weekend due to the federal government shutdown.

State Sen. Lori Berman, D-Boynton Beach, and state Rep. Fentrice Driskell D-Tampa, sent a letter signed by every Democrat in the Florida Legislature on Tuesday to the governor urging him to step in and boost the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, previously known as food stamps.

“SNAP is one of the most effective programs for addressing hunger and food insecurity in the state," says the Democratic letter. "Florida has the fiscal strength to respond. What’s needed now is the moral will to act."

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