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Undated: USDA's food distribution programs strengthen the nutrition safety net through the distribution of USDA Foods and other nutrition assistance to children, low-income families, emergency feeding programs, Indian reservations, and the elderly.
https://www.usda.gov/topics/food-and-nutrition/food-distribution


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March 29: Subsistence farmers stand to be among the biggest losers from the president’s dismantling of Barack Obama’s climate change legacy.

Smallholder farmers in Africa ... are among the world’s most vulnerable people to climate change ...

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took his most concrete step thus far to unravel his predecessor’s legacy on climate change, with a wide-ranging executive order that dismantles several Obama-era policies to restrict greenhouse gas pollution. The order outraged environmentalists—Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called it “a declaration of war on American leadership on climate change”—but it wasn’t very surprising: It simply followed through on a threat contained in the budget Trump proposed two weeks ago.

“We’re not spending money on that anymore,” Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget
said then, in response to a question about climate change during a press conference. “We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.”

That stance could be a big problem for the dozens of farmers I’ve met across sub-Saharan Africa as a journalist reporting on climate change impacts to food security.
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2017/03/29/trumps-new-executive-order-will-worsen-hunger-in-africa/

April 20: Comey: Trump has 'an emptiness inside of him and a hunger for affirmation'
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/384098-comey-trump-has-an-emptiness-inside-of-him-and-a-hunger-for-affirmation

April 20: As famine descends on a huge swath of the globe, the White House is rolling back aid, ramping up conflict and risking more climate chaos.

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One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. The quote comes from Joseph Stalin. The policy comes from Donald Trump.

Trump famously changed his policy on Syria after seeing photographs of a couple Syrian children killed by a chemical attack. It didn’t matter that the Syrian government had already killed thousands of children. In targeting the Assad regime, Trump was moved by the tragedy, not the statistic.

When it comes to world hunger, Trump’s resistance to statistics is even more appalling. There are now 1.4 million children at risk of dying from famine. No one apparently has shown Donald Trump, or his daughter Ivanka, any photos of these at-risk children. So, the US president is comfortably ignoring this statistic.
https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/donald-trump-yemen-famine-south-sudan-somalia-nigeria-world-news-latest-33039/

May 22: Rep. Susan Davis, a California Democrat, has introduced legislation in Congress that would change that [a] bill titled the Military Prevention Hunger Act,
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/19/524563155/when-active-duty-service-members-struggle-to-feed-their-families

May 24: Donald Trump to Hungry Seniors: Drop Dead

Some 10 million elders are threatened by hunger—but the president’s budget would slash desperately needed funding for food programs.
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-hungry-seniors-drop-dead/

September 28: The Republican Attack on Feeding the Hungry

GOP budget proposals take aim at one of America’s most significant bipartisan achievements.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/the-bipartisan-beginnings-of-the-food-stamp-act/541302/

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January 11: Kids are eating less whole grains and more sugary milk in school lunches this year — see how federal rules have changed for the worse ... More sugary chocolate milk, fewer whole grains, and around 300 extra milligrams of salt — these are just some of the ways the Trump Administration has relaxed school-lunch nutrition rules put in place during the Obama Administration.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-relax-school-lunch-rules-2018-1

February 18: President Trump's Hunger Games

The administration’s proposal to overhaul SNAP would squeeze the nutrition safety net, and make it more paternalistic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/snap-trump-harvest-box/553481/

February 22: Trump's Food Stamps Cuts Will Leave More Americans Hungry
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-food-stamps-snap-hunger-815327

March 9: President Trump's "Harvest Box" Plan Will Cause Hunger to Soar
https://theshriverbrief.org/president-trumps-harvest-box-plan-will-cause-hunger-to-soar-2811eb2f93d8?gi=61c7088e13c2

June 27: Ethel Kennedy, 90, Joins Alec Baldwin and More Stars in Hunger Strike Against Trump Immigration Policy
https://people.com/politics/ethel-kennedy-hunger-strike-trump-immigration-policy/

July 9: Trump Is Turning His Back on People Experiencing Poverty and Hunger
https://www.actionaidusa.org/blog/trump-turning-back-human-rights/

Undated: Trump commits $300 million to fight Africa famine

US President Donald Trump told Pope Francis on Wednesday he was committing more than $300 million (270 million euros) to help prevent or tackle famine in Yemen and several countries in Africa.
https://www.worldhunger.org/trump-commits-300-million-fight-africa-famine/

September 6: As Trump targets food stamps, hunger around the U.S. remains high
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americas-food-insecurity-still-worse-than-in-2007/

September 24: As Venezuelans go hungry, Trump targets food corruption
https://www.apnews.com/d4e050fc4fe741369928b2468694a16e

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October 1: Hunger fighters who devote their lives to feeding people in poverty are suddenly facing an odd and unprecedented situation:

They may have too much food on their hands.

What's being described as a "tsunami" of product will be released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture beginning in December. It will flow throughout America to regional food banks and neighborhood food cupboards, including the estimated 900 cupboards in the Philadelphia region.

Many U.S. farmers are unable to sell their bounty abroad because foreign nations have retaliated against tariffs imposed by President Trump by taxing American agricultural products. The USDA is buying up that food, and diverting some of it to the charitable food network.
http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/food-poverty-farmers-tariffs-trump-administration-philabundance-share-pennsylvania-20181001.html

October 12: EVERYONE has the right to be free from hunger. It shouldn’t be about what you look like, where you were born or what’s in your wallet; it’s how you live your life and contribute to your community that defines you in this country.

Building on the traumatic separation of families at the border, the Trump administration wants to block immigrant families from having a permanent, secure future in the United States and scare them away from seeking access to health care, nutrition and housing programs. For the first time ever, this will include if they use SNAP (food stamps), Medicaid and housing assistance to help make ends meet.

If this regulation moves forward, only the wealthiest immigrants could build a future in the United States. Let’s be clear what this is. Under the proposed regulation, the “public charge” rule would establish a rigged immigration system where green cards would only be available to a wealthy few while immigrant families with modest incomes—many with U.S. citizen children—could be denied the possibility of a permanent future together.
https://oregonhunger.org/public-charge/

October 16: Hunger group fears Trump rule proposal will harm immigrants
https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/hunger-group-fears-trump-rule-proposal-will-harm-immigrants/article_43a3666e-6a89-5c96-aba4-88374bc11231.html

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