The Trump administration plans to spend $1.2 billion buying commodities from farmers and distributing the food through child nutrition and emergency food assistance programs, reports the Washington Post. Doing so requires funneling the food through the nation's network of nonprofit food banks, and some are concerned about their ability to handle the increased volume of food that's expected to come their way.
"This is a very large influx of food in a very short period of time, and we have a network that has been stretched capacity-wise," said Andy Souza, president of the Community Food Bank of California. Feeding America, the nation's largest food bank network, has asked the Agriculture Department to help improve the necessary infrastructure. But as it stands, the program does not provide food banks with funds for higher costs, such as transportation and freezer space, which they will be need to make the operation work as planned.
Souza says they are going to do everything they can to make sure no family goes hungry, but they are worried that they could have to turn away truckloads of foods, according to the report. Full Story
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