KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Major changes to the nation's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, will leave thousands without food assistance. One restriction within President Donald Trump's megabill, signed into law in July, will restrict refugees, asylum seekers, and those granted legal protection for humanitarian reasons from receiving SNAP benefits.

"Resettlement is being systematically dismantled in East Tennessee, in Tennessee at large, in the country at large," Noah Jones, Bridge Refugee Services executive director, said. "That is a real problem because our clients are here to work and they are here to become contributing members of society."

Refugee service providers like Bridge Refugee Services say this is a barrier for these already vulnerable communities, and wh

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