PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Clackamas County Board of Commissioners voted Thursday to declare a local state of emergency due to the suspension of federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, authorizing $100,000 of general fund contingency dollars to be used for the emergency.

"We need the state to step up," Clackamas County Commissioner Ben West said.

Commissioners also voted to encourage the state to directly backfill the federal SNAP benefits during the ongoing federal government shutdown, as other states have done.

“Sometimes when you go to a food bank, you get what you get, you don’t get what you need per se,” Commissioner Paul Savas said during the meeting. “I’m grateful that the Governor allocated $5 million for the food bank system, but it's not what the ot

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