The Trump administration cut $1 billion in food aid to schools and food banks earlier this month, funding that was authorized by the Biden administration in 2024. Now, an additional $500 million in food deliveries to food banks has been cancelled by the US Dept of Agriculture. This one-two punch is coming at a particularly bad time for these organizations that help people who face food uncertainty. Vince Hall, chief government relations officer at Feeding America said “Any interruption of food sources will mean serious consequences to our neighbors facing hunger.
“With inflation rising and fundraising down from a pandemic high, food banks are at a moment of extraordinary demand that is taxing [them] to the breaking point,’ said Vince Hall, chief government relations officer at Feeding America. Any interruption of food sources will mean serious consequences to our neighbors facing hunger.”, according to the Washington Post.
But there’s more bad news for food programs as congressional Republicans consider a bill that cuts $230 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a program that used to be known as food stamps.