After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government's annual
report on hunger in America
[September 22, 2025]
By PAUL WISEMAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is ending the federal
government's annual report on hunger in America, stating that it had
become “overly politicized” and “rife with inaccuracies.”
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 the tax and spending cuts
bill Republicans muscled through Congress in July means 3 million people
would not qualify for food stamps, also known as SNAP benefits.
The decision to scrap the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Household
Food Security Report was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
In a press release Saturday, the USDA said the 2024 report, to be
released Oct. 22, would be the last.
“The questions used to collect the data are entirely subjective and do
not present an accurate picture of actual food security,'' the USDA
said. ”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.''
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 The Census Bureau reported earlier
this month that the U.S. poverty rate dipped from 11% in 2023 to
10.6% last year, before Trump took office.
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.
“Trump is cancelling an annual government survey that measures
hunger in America, rather than allow it to show hunger increasing
under his tenure,” Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget
policy at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, said on
social media. “This follows the playbook of many non-democracies
that cancel or manipulate reports that would otherwise show
less-than-perfect news.”
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