MUNDY TWP., MI — Two things happened to U.S. Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet during the weekend that drove home the fallout from the federal government shutdown and uncertainty about future SNAP benefits.

First, the congresswoman spent the weekend at food distribution centers in the 8th Congressional District, where demand for food is already outpacing supply as funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ran dry.

Then she went shopping for her own groceries, seeing the high price of food for every shopper in the check-out line.

“The cost of food in this country has gotten so expensive, and we just have not kept up with that,” McDonald Rivet said. “At a bare minimum, we need to make sure the most vulnerable among us have access to food.”

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