Several food banks have claimed that they are no longer receiving funds from the Agriculture Department without receiving an explanation.
The USDA allocated $500 million for food banks for the rest of the fiscal year through the Emergency Food Assistance Program. Food bank leaders in six states confirmed to Politico that many of their previously approved orders have been canceled.
Central California Food Bank personnel told the outlet that they have lost 500,000 pounds of expected food deliveries worth $850,000 for April through July. Cathy Kanefsky, president of the Food Bank of Delaware, noted that 20 to 24 full truckloads of food have been canceled through the next four months.
“We can try to figure out how to make up the gaps, which is a hard lift, or ultimately there’s less food on the table,” Chad Morrison, the president of West Virginia’s Mountaineer Food Bank,…
