The owner of a Southeast Portland coffee shop said Tuesday the shop had raised over $72,000 to help feed people losing food benefits as the government shutdown continues .

Heretic Coffee , 5120 S.E. 28th Ave., is a volunteer-run, nonprofit coffee shop that trains people to become baristas and coffee roasters.

The coffee shop has been soliciting donations for less than a week to pay for breakfast for people losing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP benefits, from the federal government.

In an Instagram post on Tuesday , the shop wrote that as of 10 a.m. that day, they had received $72,159.66 in donations.

“Over two thousand of you have given toward this cause,” wrote owner Josh White in the post.

“We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: when the system fails

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