The head of the Greater Boston Food Bank said Tuesday that she’s bracing for the impact that a seemingly guaranteed federal government shutdown will have on tens of thousands of federal workers who call the region home.

A shutdown also would deal a body blow to such already strapped safety net programs as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, often referred to as food stamps, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Emergency Food Assistance Program, Catherine D’Amato, the president and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank, said in a statement.

The federal government appeared set for its first shutdown in six years on Tuesday after a meeting between President Donald Trump and congressional leaders ended without an agreement on keeping the government funded.

Unless lawmakers

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