NEW YORK, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Earlier this year, the Donald Trump administration cut about 1 billion U.S. dollars in federal aid announced last fall by then U.S. President Joseph Biden to anti-hunger groups, according to the national advocacy group Feeding America.
"That put more pressure on charitable organizations that distribute groceries or meals to hold up their corner of the American safety net, dipping into reserves and scrounging for donations to replace the food they had lost," reported The New York Times on Tuesday about the effects of the move.
The Agriculture Department has defended these moves as fiscally responsible, paring back pandemic-era aid programs that Biden had allowed to remain bloated long past their time.
The department began helping food banks this way in the 1980s, with a program that served a dual purpose: it provided nutritional items to needy individuals but also propped up prices for U.S. farmers, by buying their goods and then giving them away.
Food banks in cities typically get 25 percent or less of their food from the department. They have other options: donations from big-box stores and grocery distribution centers, wealthy benefactors and companies, according to the report. Enditem
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