Mayor Gallego, Food Bank Leaders Respond to Impending Food Security Crisis

Office of the Mayor, City of Phoenix · October 31, 2025

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Opening remarks and event purpose

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Mayor Kate Gallego opened the press event to announce an urgent SNAP benefits disruption: she said "in less than 24 hours, 900,000 Arizonans are going to temporarily lose their SNAP benefits," noted about 400,000 of those live in Phoenix, and announced a city resource page and an upcoming citywide food drive.

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Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego convened city and nonprofit partners to mobilize emergency food-assistance plans after warning that roughly 900,000 Arizonans could temporarily lose SNAP benefits; the city launched a resource page and will run a citywide food drive while charities scale up distribution.

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