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Louisville nonprofit Community Food Share expects more Boulder County <br />and Broomfield County residents to turn to the food bank for meals as <br />funding cuts target food stamps. <br />In a virtual town hall hosted by Community Food Share on Wednesday the <br />nonprofit discussed some of the challenges it anticipates in the wake of the <br />spending cuts bill passed by the U.S. Congress last week. <br />The bill includes $1,2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental <br />Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP offers monthly benefits to low-income <br />families to help them purchase food. <br />Addressing over 50 meeting participants, Food Share CEO Rim Da Silva <br />acknowledged that there has been a lot of curiosity about how the new bill <br />will impact the local community, Community Food Share serves Boulder and <br />Broomfield counties, <br />Data provided by Feeding Colorado, a coalition of five Colorado food banks <br />including Community Food Share, shows that SNAP currently supports <br />615,000 Colorado residents, This includes 19,358 people in Boulder County <br />and 3,631 people in Broomfield County, <br />According to Feeding Colorado, 298,000 Colorado families will lose some or <br />all of their SNAP benefits because of the budget reconciliation bill, <br />Read Aiforla <br />