OAKLAND, Calif. - Ahead of a possible pause in food assistance payments to low-income families, Bay Area elected officials and nonprofit leaders have announced contingency plans in case the shutdown continues.

"There is an amazing and diverse coalition of food justice organizations and local leaders who are standing together to make sure no one in our county goes hungry," Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas said at a press conference on Friday.

‘We will take care of our own’

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SNAP , or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is known in California as CalFresh, and approximately 179,000 Alameda County residents rely on it for groceries.

The Trump Administration has promised to stop payments to the millions of Americans who receive food assista

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