First: Through Trump’s Big Ugly Bill, we saw the largest ever cut to food security.
Then: The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced it will stop publishing its annual Household Food Security reports, claiming that these surveys, which track hunger across the nation, present nothing more than “subjective, liberal fodder.”
Once again, the Trump regime is working to hide a problem rather than solve it.
Around 47 million Americans live in food-insecure households, and by the USDA stating that “These redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous studies do nothing more than fear-monger,” the Trump administration is sweeping this dire issue under the rug and using political rhetoric to justify not addressing hunger in the United States.
To make matters worse, the Republican government shutdown is impacting the already slashed SNAP funding. According to The Columbus Dispatch, nearly 1.4 million Ohioans could miss their monthly payments to help buy groceries starting November 1.
This can be avoided if Republicans would stop waiting for permission from Trump to get to work for the American people and reopen the government. We cannot afford to wait for the GOP to grow a backbone – we need to get to work NOW.
Shontel Brown is proud to be elected as the Congresswoman for Ohio’s 11th District. She has spent the last decade serving the people of Ohio and building coalitions. As she enters her second full term in Congress, she will use that experience to continue the fight for affordable quality health care, jobs that pay fair wages, a strong public education system, and to preserve and protect our democracy for generations to come. Will you join her and be the change we need?
