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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums650k more Ohioans voted for Donald Trump than Kamala Harris
...this is what they got out of that election this week:
Trump, USDA cuts 553,000 pounds of food for Greater Cleveland Food Bank: ‘Complete disappointment’
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The shelves of the Greater Cleveland Food Bank will be emptier after the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly canceled 553,000 pounds of food that was expected to help those facing food insecurity.
The food bank learned on Tuesday that it is a victim once again of funding cuts under the Trump administration. Twenty semi-truck loads of food, worth $1 million, from the Emergency Food Assistance Program have been canceled.
Meanwhile, Warzocha said they must now hope for state support, but (republican) Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s proposed budget includes a significant reduction in food bank funding, cutting it from $32 million to $24.5 million— a decrease of $7.5 million.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/trump-usda-cuts-553000-pounds-of-food-for-greater-cleveland-food-bank-complete-disappointment/ar-AA1BEhxP
USDA was supposed to spend $148 million of the $500 million early this year to buy dairy products, eggs, blueberries and more. But last month, the department notified state agencies that it was canceling solicitations from suppliers, according to a Feb. 20 email that Feeding America sent to its network of food banks and was viewed by POLITICO.
The emergency food assistance network gets its funding from a mix of money from the farm bill and through commodities USDA purchases. But the patchwork funding system has left the program unable to meet increasing hunger needs, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent years of food inflation, anti-hunger advocates say.
The Biden administration responded to the demand on food banks by supplementing the emergency assistance funding with roughly $2 billion from the CCC fund in 2022 and 2023, then the additional $500 million in 2024.
The clawbacks come as Congress is weighing shrinking the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps 40 million low-income Americans afford food. That could further exacerbate the pressure on food banks, which provide just one meal for every nine that SNAP supplies.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/usda-halts-millions-of-dollars-worth-of-deliveries-to-food-banks/ar-AA1Bgv9a
Feeding America, Ohio: https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/ohio

ProudMNDemocrat
(19,543 posts)Now pat yourselves on the back for making sure your money does not go to help the poorer among you. Then ask Jesus to bless you for your treatment of His people.
Tribetime
(6,467 posts)Baitball Blogger
(49,611 posts)their voucher system and found that 90% of those who took them were not low income.
Ohio is soon to be a shithole state, next to Alabama.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20182497
Johonny
(23,136 posts)MagickMuffin
(17,514 posts)Be sure to keep a watchful eyes on your dogs and cats. Those anger magaloongoons might have to resort to domesticated animals!
AmericaUnderSiege
(777 posts)They believe in nothing, learn nothing, and contribute nothing much lately. They allow economic angst caused entirely by Republicans to be exploited by those same Republicans to inflict more pain on themselves and others. They refuse to remember anything.
You were once proud Americans, and Americans were once proud of you.
Sogo
(6,131 posts)It happened in Iowa, too, when our Governor axed the summer food program for kids.
My brother worked there for a while way back, and it was not so bad then, but still right wing I think. Things have changed a lot. We went to museums and a great concert there too. I think it was in that museum there that there was a very beautiful ancient necklace on display... the skill from that time period was amazing and a sight to see.
calimary
(85,604 posts)I can’t think of a single thing or idea or proposal of theirs that I could support.
dchill
(41,763 posts)H2O Man
(76,480 posts)mountain grammy
(27,631 posts)
and if another election was held next week, he'd still win.. some mean ass people in this country.
PortTack
(35,447 posts)ShazzieB
(20,009 posts)I can't help suspecting that's why Trump chose Cleveland for this childish, petty stunt.
Blue Full Moon
(1,929 posts)NEOBuckeye
(2,867 posts)Jit423
(1,112 posts)W_HAMILTON
(8,831 posts)Yes, it served blue Cleveland, but also red Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Ashland, and Richland counties.
ShazzieB
(20,009 posts)Somehow I doubt it!
bottomofthehill
(9,080 posts)Sorry to the starving but the orange god says no food for you.
tishaLA
(14,588 posts)They'd be speaking out about this -- from Harken through Grassley, protecting USDA funding has been too of mind because so much of the state's economy depends on the money it receives to support food banks, SNAP., and other food programs (many of which, honestly, are terribly unhealthy but are cash cows for the states(.
BoRaGard
(4,657 posts)republicons are taking food out of the mouths of the hungry.
It's that simple. It's that ugly. I
It's fundamentally anti-Christian.