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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(121,789 posts)
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:22 PM Mar 20

USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks

Source: Politico

The Agriculture Department has halted millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks without explanation, according to food bank leaders in six states.

USDA had previously allocated $500 million in deliveries to food banks for fiscal year 2025 through The Emergency Food Assistance Program. Now, the food bank leaders say many of those orders have been canceled.

The halting of these deliveries, first reported by POLITICO, comes after the Agriculture Department separately axed two other food programs, ending more than $1 billion in planned federal spending for schools and food banks to purchase from local farmers.

-snip-

The collective cuts are expected to make it more difficult for food banks to meet families’ needs, with food prices now 20 percent higher than they were in 2020, food bank leaders say.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/usda-halts-millions-dollars-worth-205844077.html

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USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 20 OP
Horrible that the President of the #USA is STARVING his own citazens to boost his Big EGO!! riversedge Mar 20 #1
It's Rebl2 Mar 20 #12
How Nazi 'convince' people to obey...starve them into submission. NotHardly Mar 21 #24
A new slogan for MAGA: starve America. sinkingfeeling Mar 20 #2
I like! bluestarone Mar 21 #26
Starve the old, the poor, the sick. Irish_Dem Mar 21 #29
Explanation is simple. Trump/must get off on hurting people who aren't filthy rich mega-donors. 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 20 #3
He is a hateful, grotesque human being BOSSHOG Mar 20 #6
I don't think it will take that long dweller Mar 20 #8
Some law enforcement and military will be willing and even eager PufPuf23 Mar 20 #17
Yes we have to be aware at all times! bluestarone Mar 21 #27
Yes police love being the new Trump gestapo. Irish_Dem Mar 21 #31
Even China learned this lesson. Irish_Dem Mar 21 #30
That's just grotesque JMCKUSICK Mar 20 #4
Farmers are gonna be fucked by this as well NickB79 Mar 20 #5
Silos in many Kansas Counties BOSSHOG Mar 20 #7
Trump will send them $millions like last time. Irish_Dem Mar 21 #32
Last time he sent money mostly to the big corporate farmers NickB79 Mar 21 #36
Northern Wisconsin was thrilled with the checks. Irish_Dem Mar 21 #37
Isn't this from the North Korean Dictator's handbook? sinkingfeeling Mar 20 #9
It's the script. Destroy the US economy and society. Pilfer whatever you can get. erronis Mar 20 #10
"Let the people starve." -Felon47, probably sakabatou Mar 20 #11
Such good Xtians in this administration ! kimbutgar Mar 20 #13
"The fundamental flaw of Western Civilization is empathy... a bug in Western Civilization which is the empathy response" Midnight Writer Mar 20 #14
This is infuriating! Hope22 Mar 20 #15
Not only are American's in need going to suffer food insecurity, but farmers are again getting stiffed. patphil Mar 20 #16
Just fuckin' die already, you evil human being. OverBurn Mar 20 #18
Meanwhile, here in Canada, there is a surge of American produce going there from supermarkets OnlinePoker Mar 21 #19
It's time we consider whether this should be called radical evil Prairie Gates Mar 21 #20
We crossed the line into evil quite some time ago. Irish_Dem Mar 21 #33
Wait until they raid that Farm Bill BumRushDaShow Mar 21 #21
And much of it will go to waste! 2naSalit Mar 21 #22
Musk's wet dream orangecrush Mar 21 #23
Starving women, children, POC. Irish_Dem Mar 21 #34
They are evil. They not only want the poor seniors to be homeless, they want us to starve. n/t elocs Mar 21 #25
They want us to die, we are useless to them. Irish_Dem Mar 21 #35
Billionaires refuse to feed poor people. Irish_Dem Mar 21 #28

Rebl2

(16,166 posts)
12. It's
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:17 PM
Mar 20

his plan. Starve American citizens that need help with getting food for themselves and their families.

BOSSHOG

(42,098 posts)
6. He is a hateful, grotesque human being
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:32 PM
Mar 20

Constantly seeking ways to hurt humans any which way.

We are almost there. Republicans will soon be primaried for supporting trump.

dweller

(26,421 posts)
8. I don't think it will take that long
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:41 PM
Mar 20

If the hungry masses begin to revolt …

😠




✌🏻

PufPuf23

(9,373 posts)
17. Some law enforcement and military will be willing and even eager
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 11:04 PM
Mar 20

to shoot protesters.

Creepy.

bluestarone

(19,606 posts)
27. Yes we have to be aware at all times!
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 12:12 PM
Mar 21

Protest with eyes and ears open. Plus have guards and radios

Irish_Dem

(68,333 posts)
30. Even China learned this lesson.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 12:30 PM
Mar 21

It starved its people for a long time but then realized that 1.4 billion hungry angry people
might not be the best thing to happen to a fascist regime.

So then it flooded the country with cheap food.

NickB79

(19,866 posts)
5. Farmers are gonna be fucked by this as well
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:32 PM
Mar 20

As someone with a bunch of MAGA farmer aunts, uncles, and cousins: GOOD. All they understand is money, and if a few lose their farms, so be it.

BOSSHOG

(42,098 posts)
7. Silos in many Kansas Counties
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:35 PM
Mar 20

are full of last years crop of sorghum earmarked for sale to USAID. No Sale. And babies starving in Africa. Imagine the mass grave display at the trump library.

NickB79

(19,866 posts)
36. Last time he sent money mostly to the big corporate farmers
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 08:55 PM
Mar 21

All my family run 250-500 acres of mixed crops, dairy cattle and hogs in central Minnesota. They all bitched how they didn't see jack the last time Trump sent out checks.

Irish_Dem

(68,333 posts)
37. Northern Wisconsin was thrilled with the checks.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:01 PM
Mar 21

Dairy farmers. The kind who are very shrewd.

erronis

(19,094 posts)
10. It's the script. Destroy the US economy and society. Pilfer whatever you can get.
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:58 PM
Mar 20

And let the scavengers (vulture capitalists) clean the bones.

kimbutgar

(24,872 posts)
13. Such good Xtians in this administration !
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:25 PM
Mar 20

But they seemed to have forgotten Jesus words of love thy neighbor and feed the poor.

I will never respect any church gong xtian that voted for this terrible pos!

Midnight Writer

(23,716 posts)
14. "The fundamental flaw of Western Civilization is empathy... a bug in Western Civilization which is the empathy response"
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:03 PM
Mar 20

Elon Musk-Feb 2025.

He thinks empathy is a weakness. As does Trump. As do many avaricious businessmen.

In fact, Civilization of any kind would not exist without the empathy "bug".

Amazing how these people want to tear down the very systems they have been thriving under.

Hope22

(3,907 posts)
15. This is infuriating!
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:45 PM
Mar 20

The guy doesn’t know what a grocery store is. He doesn’t know what it feels like to be hungry! Insanity!

patphil

(7,690 posts)
16. Not only are American's in need going to suffer food insecurity, but farmers are again getting stiffed.
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:53 PM
Mar 20

AGAIN!
First it was USAID, and now this.

It's too bad Trump, Musk and the rest of their ilk won't have to worry where their next meal is coming from.
Billionaires should never have any say in government; they haven't got a clue how the rest of us live, and how many people really need the food that these food banks supply.
I don't have a lot of money for charities, but the Regional Food Bank in my area gets my contribution each month.
We need to take our country back from the callous, heartless billionaires who are only concerned about making more and more money.

OnlinePoker

(5,939 posts)
19. Meanwhile, here in Canada, there is a surge of American produce going there from supermarkets
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 12:25 AM
Mar 21

In protest of the Trump tariffs, people are buying a lot less U.S. produce so, rather than have it spoil, the supermarkets are sending it to the food banks.

Prairie Gates

(4,880 posts)
20. It's time we consider whether this should be called radical evil
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 12:32 AM
Mar 21

We don't like to talk about evil.

It seems like we're approaching evil...

Irish_Dem

(68,333 posts)
33. We crossed the line into evil quite some time ago.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 12:34 PM
Mar 21

Cannot put the genie back into the bottle.

Irish_Dem

(68,333 posts)
28. Billionaires refuse to feed poor people.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 12:25 PM
Mar 21

It is survival of the fittest, part of the eugenics program.

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