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The USDA has halted a number of million {dollars} price of meals deliveries to attend…checks notes…meals banks as part of one other cost-cutting measure by the overly aggressive cost-cutting Trump administration.
If I refuse to pay my telephone, invoice it doesn’t imply I’m saving cash; it means I’m neglecting my obligations, and for months, Trump and his wayward band of sycophants have been slicing important packages however at all times appear to have cash for Trump’s golf outings. Because it stands, Trump’s golf journeys have price U.S. taxpayers some $18 million since he was sworn into workplace.
Nicely now, Politico is reporting that the Agriculture Division has stopped “thousands and thousands of {dollars} price of deliveries to meals banks with out rationalization, in keeping with meals financial institution leaders in six states.”
However we’re saving cash!
See how dumb that sounds?
In keeping with the information website, the USDA had already allotted $500 million to 6 meals banks for The Emergency Meals Help Program, and now, that cash has been canceled.
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From Politico:
The halting of those deliveries, first reported by POLITICO, comes after the Agriculture Division individually axed two different meals packages, ending greater than $1 billion in deliberate federal spending for colleges and meals banks to buy from native farmers.
USDA didn’t reply to a number of requests for remark.
The collective cuts are anticipated to make it tougher for meals banks to satisfy households’ wants, with meals costs now 20 % increased than they have been in 2020, meals financial institution leaders say.
“I definitely have a look at our traces and have a look at our cabinets and say we’d like some reduction,” stated Joree Novotny, govt director of the Ohio Affiliation of Foodbanks, which additionally reported canceled deliveries with no indication they might resume.
A supply of 500,000 kilos of meals to the Central California Meals Financial institution, which might have lasted from April by way of July and price $850,000, has been stopped.
Cathy Kanefsky, president of the Meals Financial institution of Delaware, instructed Politico “that between 20 to 24 full truckloads of meals have been canceled for the following 4 months.”
As typical, the Trump administration is just taking cash meant to feed individuals going by way of tough occasions to allow them to spend it someplace else. The irony is that $148 million of the allotted $500 million was to be spent with farmers to purchase “dairy merchandise, eggs, blueberries and extra.”
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“USDA has not but introduced plans to maneuver ahead with the canceled meals orders,” the e-mail from Feeding America despatched to its meals financial institution networks learn, Politico reviews. “We consider the very best strategy is for community members to work by way of state businesses to acquire clarification from USDA.”
But when the states might afford to feed these in want, they wouldn’t want federal assist.
“We will attempt to determine learn how to make up the gaps, which is a tough elevate, or in the end there’s much less meals on the desk,” Chad Morrison, president of West Virginia’s Mountaineer Meals Financial institution, instructed Politico.
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