NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The federal government will shut down Saturday night if Congress does not pass a spending bill. That will leave millions of federal workers without a paycheck and pause many benefit programs that help families put food on the table.
Teresitta Jones is already cutting back her spending preparing for a shutdown. The mother of five said she can no longer buy snacks to send to school and is just trying to get enough food to feed her family.
“It’s going to impact me hard,” Jones said. “I have to change my shopping trips. I do have to budget and barely even spend. We have to cut back on a lot of different things. We can’t do the normal things that we do because we have to cut back, unfortunately.”
Jones said she will likely have to turn to food banks when SNAP and WIC funding runs …