USDA cuts more than $1bn in local food purchases for schools, food banks | Trump administration
the US Department of Agriculture The (US Department of Agriculture) has made two programs that provide more than one billion dollars to schools and food banks to buy food from local farms and livestock breeders.
About $ 660 million of this money was included in the local food For the cooperative school agreement program, which provided money for schools and child care facilities but is now eliminated.
The rest were part of the Local Cooperative Convention for the purchase of food, which provided funds for local food banks and other organizations. The US Department of Agriculture has been frozen to freeze the current agreements, but the second round of financing was distinguished in the fiscal year 2025.
A. statement From Shannon Glev, head of the School Nutrition Association. “Meanwhile, the short school feeding teams that seek to improve the lists and expand the cooking of scratching, will be burdened with costly and expensive paper works created by new government palaces.”
It was the US Department of Agriculture Declare $ 1.13 billion in financing for each of the two programs last December. State officials learned of the discounts on Friday.
They come Donald TrumpThe second presidential administration has cut the power of federal spending and imposed on the customs tariff, which has a combined Force Food organizations and farmers to reduce employees as well as stop investments.
Food banks have already seen demands due to high food prices, and Republicans in Congress are to push To make major discounts for supplementary nutrition assistance (SNAP).
A spokesman for the US Department of Agriculture Politico said that financing the chosen programs for the judiciary “will be terminated after a 60 -day notice.” The spokesperson said that the programs created by executive orders issued during the presidency of Joe Biden and “no longer affect the agency’s goals.”
“It still has large financial resources remaining [and] It will remain in effect during the remaining period of the performance period. “
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Massachusetts governor, Mora Haley, criticized the White House Trump to cut programs that would have saved $ 12 million of financing related to schools and food banks in her mandate.
in press releaseShe said that Trump and his billionaire spending, Elon Musk “announced that feeding children and supporting local farmers is no longer” priorities “, which is just the latest terrible reduction with a real impact on families via Massachusetts.”
She said, “There is nothing appropriate on this topic.” “Trump continues to block basic financing in violation of the court’s orders, and our children, farmers and small companies lead to this.”
