By: Megan Henry -October 28, 2025

Ohio SNAP recipient Peaches Calhoun is worried what will happen to her family’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits if the federal government shutdown stretches into November.

Calhoun, a single mother of four children in Columbus, is one of the approximately 1.39 million Ohioans who receive SNAP benefits.

“I’m someone who’s living this currently,” she said Thursday during a press conference at the Statehouse. “Someone who’s seen the fear in her kids faces when there’s more months left than there is money, someone who knows that hunger is not a talking point, it’s a sound, it’s a feeling, it’s a slow ache that lives in your bones.”

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The federal government has been shut down since Oct. 1 and SNAP

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