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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 cellphone, invoice it doesn’t imply I’m saving cash; it means I’m neglecting my duties, and for months, Trump and his wayward band of sycophants have been slicing important applications 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.
Properly now, Politico is reporting that the Agriculture Division has stopped “hundreds of thousands of {dollars} price of deliveries to meals banks with out clarification, in keeping with meals financial institution leaders in six states.”
However we’re saving cash!
See how dumb that sounds?
Based on 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 applications, ending greater than $1 billion in deliberate federal spending for faculties 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 harder for meals banks to fulfill households’ wants, with meals costs now 20 p.c greater than they have been in 2020, meals financial institution leaders say.
“I actually take a look at our strains and take a look at our cabinets and say we want some reduction,” mentioned Joree Novotny, government 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 via July and value $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 normal, the Trump administration is just taking cash meant to feed folks going via tough instances 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 method is for community members to work via 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 are able to strive to determine learn how to make up the gaps, which is a tough carry, or finally 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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