#emergency-funding

#emergency-funding

"For every one meal the food bank provides, SNAP generally provides nine," said Lee, who said she relied on CalFresh benefits while raising her two children. "We usually think of food insecurity, famine in other countries. Here we are in this country, the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, talking about how we mobilize to feed people," she continued. "Shame and disgrace."

Located in Lone Pine, a town at the base of Mt. Whitney with just 1,300 residents, Southern Inyo Healthcare District is the only hospital within a nearly 60-mile radius. It's the closest stop for injured hikers and dehydrated tourists visiting Whitney or nearby Death Valley, which regularly receives over 1 million visitors per year. Without it there would be a 136-mile stretch between the next closest hospitals in the eastern Sierra Nevada.

The coalition of attorneys general argues that DHS's move to tie disaster relief funding to state immigration enforcement is illegal and detrimental to public safety.