{"id":13563,"date":"2025-09-22T03:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-ends-annual-report-on-hunger-in-america\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T03:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:20:25","slug":"trump-administration-ends-annual-report-on-hunger-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-ends-annual-report-on-hunger-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration ends annual report on hunger in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1758405668000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                        <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                                                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; The Trump administration is ending the federal government&rsquo;s annual report on <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/food-banks-campaign-against-hunger-snap-pantry-665c19251b5d83bbed45a29958f79609\">hunger in America<\/a><\/span>stating that it had become &ldquo;overly politicized&rdquo; and &ldquo;rife with inaccuracies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes two and a half months after President Donald Trump signed legislation sharply reducing food aid to the poor. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/what-is-republican-trump-tax-bill-f65be44e1050431a601320197322551b\">the tax and spending cuts bill<\/a><\/span>  Republicans muscled through Congress in July means <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-big-bill-midterm-election-republican-23652b22f1d760f5e3254ad4c3b642e6\">3 million people would not qualify for food stamps<\/a><\/span>also known as SNAP benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to scrap the U.S. Department of Agriculture&rsquo;s Household Food Security Report was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release Saturday, the USDA said the 2024 report, to be released Oct. 22, would be the last.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The questions used to collect the data are entirely subjective and do not present an accurate picture of actual food security,&rsquo;&#8217; the USDA said. &rdquo;The data is rife with inaccuracies slanted to create a narrative that is not representative of what is actually happening in the countryside as we are currently experiencing lower poverty rates, increasing wages, and job growth under the Trump Administration.&rsquo;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Census Bureau reported earlier this month that the <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/income-inflation-economy-ae72499ff0de2e0251061ff3a502228b\">U.S. poverty rate dipped<\/a><\/span>  from 11% in 2023 to 10.6% last year, before Trump took office. <\/p>\n<p>Critics were quick to accuse the administration of deliberately making it harder to measure hunger and assess the impact of its cuts to food stamps.<\/p>\n<p>  &ldquo;Trump is cancelling an annual government survey that measures hunger in America, rather than allow it to show hunger increasing under his tenure,&rdquo; Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, said on social media. &ldquo;This follows the playbook of many non-democracies that cancel or manipulate reports that would otherwise show less-than-perfect news.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-ending-america-hunger-report-snap-cuts-750f90757f50ab2d8bc97dfca5a917dd\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; The Trump administration is ending the federal government&rsquo;s annual report on hunger in Americastating that it had become &ldquo;overly politicized&rdquo; and &ldquo;rife with inaccuracies.&rdquo; The decision comes two and a half months after President Donald Trump signed legislation sharply reducing food aid to the poor. 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