With the longest government shutdown in U.S. history stretching to day 39, and on the heels of the Supreme Court granting President Donald Trump’s administration’s emergency order blocking a court order to fully fund SNAP benefits, the need for food has grown.

Government workers have not received a paycheck in a month, inflation is still causing sticker shock in grocery stores, and many in the area had their federal jobs cut earlier in the year, which has caused food insecurity to grow for many in the D.C. area.

Organizers at Saturday’s food pop-up giveaway, which was jointly hosted in Arlington, Virginia, by Mount Olivet United Methodist Church and Walker Chapel United Methodist Church, said they’ve never seen longer lines.

“We had folks who were showing up for the first time because

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