House Democrats have warned the Trump administration that ending a long-running hunger survey risks obscuring crucial insights about how many Americans face food insecurity.
The Agriculture Department’s Household Food Security Report has offered an essential measure of how well federal food assistance programs are working for 30 years, members of the House Agriculture Committee said in a letter released Friday that urged officials to continue issuing the data.
Their missive follows a decision by the Trump administration on Sept. 20 to cancel future versions of the report for being “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous.” Democrats raised concern that without the ...