USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks
Source: Politico
The Agriculture Department has halted millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks without explanation, according to food bank leaders in six states.
USDA had previously allocated $500 million in deliveries to food banks for fiscal year 2025 through The Emergency Food Assistance Program. Now, the food bank leaders say many of those orders have been canceled.
The halting of these deliveries, first reported by POLITICO, comes after the Agriculture Department separately axed two other food programs, ending more than $1 billion in planned federal spending for schools and food banks to purchase from local farmers.
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The collective cuts are expected to make it more difficult for food banks to meet families needs, with food prices now 20 percent higher than they were in 2020, food bank leaders say.
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riversedge
(79,395 posts)his plan. Starve American citizens that need help with getting food for themselves and their families.
NotHardly
(2,619 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,209 posts)bluestarone
(21,157 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,775 posts)Think how much money we can save.
50 Shades Of Blue
(11,337 posts)BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)Constantly seeking ways to hurt humans any which way.
We are almost there. Republicans will soon be primaried for supporting trump.
dweller
(27,835 posts)If the hungry masses begin to revolt
😠
✌🏻
PufPuf23
(9,707 posts)to shoot protesters.
Creepy.
bluestarone
(21,157 posts)Protest with eyes and ears open. Plus have guards and radios
Irish_Dem
(79,775 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,775 posts)It starved its people for a long time but then realized that 1.4 billion hungry angry people
might not be the best thing to happen to a fascist regime.
So then it flooded the country with cheap food.
JMCKUSICK
(5,121 posts)NickB79
(20,241 posts)As someone with a bunch of MAGA farmer aunts, uncles, and cousins: GOOD. All they understand is money, and if a few lose their farms, so be it.
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)are full of last years crop of sorghum earmarked for sale to USAID. No Sale. And babies starving in Africa. Imagine the mass grave display at the trump library.
Irish_Dem
(79,775 posts)To make sure they stay in the cult.
NickB79
(20,241 posts)All my family run 250-500 acres of mixed crops, dairy cattle and hogs in central Minnesota. They all bitched how they didn't see jack the last time Trump sent out checks.
Irish_Dem
(79,775 posts)Dairy farmers. The kind who are very shrewd.
sinkingfeeling
(57,209 posts)erronis
(22,651 posts)And let the scavengers (vulture capitalists) clean the bones.
sakabatou
(45,769 posts)kimbutgar
(26,797 posts)But they seemed to have forgotten Jesus words of love thy neighbor and feed the poor.
I will never respect any church gong xtian that voted for this terrible pos!
Midnight Writer
(25,145 posts)Elon Musk-Feb 2025.
He thinks empathy is a weakness. As does Trump. As do many avaricious businessmen.
In fact, Civilization of any kind would not exist without the empathy "bug".
Amazing how these people want to tear down the very systems they have been thriving under.
Hope22
(4,468 posts)The guy doesnt know what a grocery store is. He doesnt know what it feels like to be hungry! Insanity!
patphil
(8,724 posts)AGAIN!
First it was USAID, and now this.
It's too bad Trump, Musk and the rest of their ilk won't have to worry where their next meal is coming from.
Billionaires should never have any say in government; they haven't got a clue how the rest of us live, and how many people really need the food that these food banks supply.
I don't have a lot of money for charities, but the Regional Food Bank in my area gets my contribution each month.
We need to take our country back from the callous, heartless billionaires who are only concerned about making more and more money.
OverBurn
(1,287 posts)OnlinePoker
(6,091 posts)In protest of the Trump tariffs, people are buying a lot less U.S. produce so, rather than have it spoil, the supermarkets are sending it to the food banks.
Prairie Gates
(7,186 posts)We don't like to talk about evil.
It seems like we're approaching evil...
Irish_Dem
(79,775 posts)Cannot put the genie back into the bottle.
BumRushDaShow
(165,709 posts)which includes SNAP funding. You ain't seen nothing yet!
2naSalit
(99,990 posts)Fucking asshole!
I wish %#$@ #&^%$@#& $%&%$ &*$$ ^&%!!!!!
orangecrush
(28,321 posts)Starving poor people to death
Irish_Dem
(79,775 posts)The old, the sick, the poor.
elocs
(24,486 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,775 posts)Useless eaters who cost too damn much.
Irish_Dem
(79,775 posts)It is survival of the fittest, part of the eugenics program.