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Senior citizens receive a hot meal at the Roosevelt Community Center as food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration, in Charleston, West Virginia, US, Mar 19, 2025/Evelyn Hockstein
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Trump Cuts Hit Struggling Food Banks, Risking Hunger For Low-Income Americans

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Reuters: Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration, according to Reuters interviews with organizations in seven states.
Hunger in the US has ticked up in recent years with rising inflation and the end of pandemic-era programs that expanded food aid. President Donald Trump’s administration has vowed to lower inflation by cutting back on government spending, including two US Department of Agriculture programs that helped schools and food banks buy food from local farms.
Reuters spoke with food banks in seven states who said cancellation and pauses of the programs meant they expected to offer less produce, meat and other staples in the coming weeks and months, leaving scarcer food for those reliant on free supplies that helped stave off hunger.
One reason is fewer expected shipments from USDA’s The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), one of the agency’s core nutrition programs that buys food from farmers and sends it to food pantries, some of the organisations said.
Vince Hall, chief government relations officer for Feeding America, the nation’s largest food bank network, said the USDA is reviewing the program and had paused half of TEFAP funding – $500 million – sourced from the Commodity Credit Corporation, which generally gives the department a broad discretionary funding pool for various programs.
A USDA spokesperson told Reuters the agency is still making purchases to support food banks but did not respond to detailed questions about TEFAP spending and why food banks are seeing reduced deliveries.
In a letter to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins dated Tuesday, a group of 26 US Senators asked a series of pointed questions about canceled food purchases, and TEFAP and other USDA funding cuts. The Democrats and two Senate independents said the loss would have a “significant and damaging impact upon millions of people.”
Food banks are handling unprecedented demand as US hunger rates climb after years of decline. In 2023, 13.5 percent of Americans struggled at some point to secure enough food, the highest rate in nearly a decade, according to the most recent USDA data. In rural America, the hunger rate is even higher, at 15.4 percent, the data shows.
Anna Pesek, a farmer in Delaware County, Iowa, said about 20 percent of sales from her Over the Moon farm last year were from the LFPA, which sent her turkeys and pork to food banks across the state.
Funding for that program has also been cut.
She expects her pasture-raised products will no longer make their way to pantries without the agency funding.

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