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Donald Trump freezes $1 billion funding for elementary and secondary school meals

2025-03-11 18:47:46Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Donald Trump freezes $1 billion funding for elementary and secondary school
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The US Department of Agriculture has frozen over $1 billion in funds intended to help schools and food banks buy from local farmers, according to a nonprofit organization.

"Multiple states" were recently notified of these cuts, the nonprofit school nutrition association said in a statement Tuesday.

“With research showing that school meals are the healthiest meals Americans eat, Congress should invest in underfunded school meal programs instead of cutting services critical to student achievement and health,” said the group’s president, Shannon Gleave. “These proposals would cause millions of children to lose access to free school meals at a time when working families are struggling with rising food costs. Meanwhile, understaffed school food teams trying to improve menus and expand scratch cooking would be burdened with time-consuming and costly paperwork created by the new government’s inefficiencies.”

About $660 million in funding through the Local Food for Schools program for 2025 will no longer be available to support child care institutions and schools, the group added.

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education confirmed it received a termination notice from the USDA on Friday for the second round of Local Food for Schools grant funding, a $12.2 million award, claiming they "determined that this agreement no longer meets the agency's priorities and that termination of the award is appropriate," state Governor Maura Healy said in a statement on Monday, The Independent reports.

“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared that feeding children and supporting local farmers are no longer ‘priorities’ and this is just the latest horrific cut with a real impact on families across Massachusetts,” said Governor Healey. “There is nothing ‘appropriate’ about this. Trump and Musk are continuing to withhold essential funding in violation of court orders, and our children, farmers, and small businesses are bearing the brunt of it.

The Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement program, which provides food to food banks and organizations that reach underserved communities, was also included in the cuts, Politico reported.

A USDA spokesperson told the newspaper that funding “is no longer available and those agreements will be terminated upon 60 days’ notice.” The spokesperson added: “These programs, established under the previous administration through executive authority, no longer serve the agency’s purposes. The LFPA and LFPA Plus agreements that were in effect prior to LFPA 25, which still have significant remaining funding resources, will continue to be in effect for the remainder of the performance period.”


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