{"id":16931,"date":"2025-03-24T18:12:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16931"},"modified":"2025-03-24T18:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:12:49","slug":"usda-halts-millions-of-dollars-worth-of-deliveries-to-food-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16931","title":{"rendered":"USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The Agriculture Department has halted millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks without explanation, according to food bank leaders in six states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/19\/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/19\/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Agriculture Department has halted millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks without explanation, according to food bank leaders in six states.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/19\/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[225,221,725,279,170,2177],"class_list":["post-16931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-agriculture","tag-donald-trump","tag-food","tag-spending","tag-trump","tag-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16933,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions\/16933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}