Trump’s war on the war on poverty
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One of the core policies of the second Trump administration is to cut SNAP in order to provide more upper-class tax cuts. But don’t worry, they have a solution — don’t measure the resulting increases in hunger:
The Trump administration is canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food.
The data, which is collected each December and analyzed by the U.S. Agriculture Department, measures food insecurity across states and demographic groups.
The data has been collected every year since the mid-1990s, and is widely used by federal, state and local policymakers to make funding decisions for food-assistance programs, and to evaluate how well those programs work.
The decision to discontinue the survey for 2025 was announced in meetings with USDA employees this past week by an administrator for the Economic Research Service, an arm of the Agriculture Department, according to people present at the meetings.
Employees were told that the survey wouldn’t be funded this year by the USDA, according to the people who attended the meetings.
On Saturday, the USDA confirmed that it was canceling the survey.
In related news:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday postponed the release of a key annual report central to future inflation data.
Why it matters: The BLS — charged with collecting critical data on employment, prices and more — did not explain the reasoning for the delay or when it might ultimately be released.
Well, checkmate — people definitely won’t notice that they’re paying more for things now.