MONTGOMERY – According to an Alabama press release, Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday announced she is releasing $2 million of the state’s emergency funds to go towards eight food banks, serving all of Alabama’s 67 counties. This comes on the 4th day of the month, which is the first day some of the state’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients will miss an issuance of those benefits to their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards. In Alabama, SNAP benefits are issued to recipients’ EBT cards on a specific day from the 4th of the month to the 23rd, so each day U.S. Senate Democrats refuse to reopen the federal government, more Alabama children, seniors, and disabled who benefit from the SNAP program will be impacted.

As the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) has

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