Low-income families and the nonprofits that help them are scrambling after funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was eliminated in the recent budget bill signed by President Trump. Funding for a food box program and a SNAP-Ed nutrition class for kids run by Children’s Aid, a New York City nonprofit, will end in October unless the group can find the money to keep it going. “The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Congress and the president passed, it is completely eliminating our SNAP-Ed funding,” said Taisy Conk, Director of the Food and Nutrition Program at Children’s Aid. “So, as of October 1st, that is entirely cut.” Children’s Aid currently operates a Food Box program and school-based cooking and nutrition workshops supported by a SNAP-Ed grant. The cuts come at a time when access to fresh, healthy food is already limited in many neighborhoods Children’s Aid serves. “There’s no salad place nearby. There’s not a lot of health food places nearby,” Lexi Paulino said. Paulino is expecting her first child soon. “So it’s really important to know how to make these things on your own, and I think programs like this really give people that power to be able to do that.” Ericka Villegas, a mother of three, says the program helps stretch her family’s budget while giving them healthier food options. "I love that it’s affordable, that it gives me access to fruits that I’m not able to find all the time in the local supermarkets,” Villegas said. Without the program, Villegas worries about rising costs. “We don’t qualify for SNAP help, but even then, it is affordable enough that it helps us to keep our costs as low as we can.” Carla Robles, a mother of four, feels that defunding food assistance aid show a disconnect between the Trump administration and everyday families. “What’s gonna happen to all of the people that cannot afford to get fresh fruits and vegetables?” Robles said. “If this goes away, then we, the community, is gonna lose.” Children’s Aid is now looking for alternative funding to keep its programs running. “We're hoping for roll over funding… or potentially for the state to step in,” Conk said. “But as it is, we would not be able to operate the programming as we currently do it.”