The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the administration of President Trump announced on Saturday that it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey, calling it “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous.”

The Household Food Security Report provides yearly data on the lack of access to adequate nutrition for low-income Americans, and helps shape policy on how to combat food insecurity and hunger.

The USDA’s announcement comes after Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law this summer, which expands the work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. This, in effect, will leave an estimated 2.4 million Americans without food aid.

  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I love how this study is “costly, politicized, and extraneous,” but changing the name from Department of Defense to Department of War isn’t. And what about those $50k Big Brother posters of him hanging on government buildings. Totally worth it.