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Analysis: Trump's cut to food security survey could make measuring US hunger harder
The cancellation leaves officials without the main national measure of food insecurity as 4.7 million people lose SNAP benefits, experts said.
- President Donald Trump canceled the U.S. Department of Agriculture food security survey last September, ending a 30-year initiative measuring household access to healthy, affordable food.
- The administration described the report as "redundant, costly, politicized and extraneous" in a press release, claiming it was no longer necessary to track food security metrics.
- Since policy changes, 4.7 million people—about 11% of participants—have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, while the final survey released last December showed food insecurity hit 13.7% of households.
- Cornell University scholar Matthew Rabbitt warned the cancellation creates a "void in information" on food insecurity, complicating efforts to evaluate SNAP cuts' impact on child hunger.
- Democratic Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester and other lawmakers are pushing legislation to revive the USDA survey, while states like Maine have begun developing independent hunger reports.
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Analysis: Trump's cut to food security survey could make measuring US hunger harder
Trump's cancellation of a government food security survey could make it difficult to assess whether his cuts to the food stamp program lead to a rise in U.S. hunger.
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