U.S. Sen. Klobuchar Visits Brooklyn Park Food Bank To Highlight Record Demand

Sen. Amy Klobuchar visited Second Harvest Heartland in Brooklyn Park on Tuesday to highlight record demand at food shelves.

Second Harvest Heartland is one of the nation’s largest food banks. It distributes food to more than 600 food shelves throughout the northwest metro and the state.

Food relief officials say record demand is caused by rising costs, stagnant wages and recent uncertainty over federal SNAP funding.

Likewise, demand is expected to continue to rise as SNAP cuts go into effect that were approved under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

“The fact is that unemployment is starting to creep up around the country,” Klobuchar said. “There’s been issues with these tariffs — it’s made things more expensive. And then there’s also just been people who have uncertainty in their jobs right now. And all of that, if you’ve got two kids at home, you’re not going to be able to just say ‘well, maybe I’ll find a job in a week or two.’ You’ve got to make sure that there’s food on the table. So that has created the economic uncertainty.”

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) and Sarah Moberg, CEO of Second Harvest Heartland take questions from CCX News on Tuesday.

Klobuchar added that she’s asking her colleagues to reconsider SNAP cuts that were approved earlier this year.

“If you look at what some of these cuts were, $86 million was literally foisted on Minnesota taxpayers,” she said. “We’re hoping that we can delay or change those shifts because it’s a lot of funding that Minnesota isn’t going to be able to afford while you see more people needing food.”

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