Farmers, Food Banks Stung by US Funding Cuts While Costs Climb

President Donald Trump’s federal funding cuts are being felt from farms in the Heartland to food banks in Chicago.

More than $1 billion in assistance that usually flows into the US Department of Agriculture for two programs that help local farmers, schools and food banks has already vanished. Now the administration is threatening to slash the agency’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides low-income families with benefits to help supplement their grocery budgets.