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Nearly $5 million in Washington emergency food assistance is canceled by USDA


Nearly $5 million in Washington emergency food assistance is canceled by USDA

The Trump Administration on Tuesday canceled nearly $5 million in emergency food assistance for the state of Washington.

For the next few months, foods like chicken and turkey breasts, canned chicken, dried plums, dried cranberries and milk will no longer be provided by the federal emergency food program for food banks in Washington, according to Daniel Schafer, the communications administrator for the Washington Department of Agriculture.

Employees at the state's agriculture department logged into a federal system to track orders for food assistance programs on Tuesday and noticed the status of a previous order for food delivery from April to June changed from "under review" to "canceled." Those orders total $4.7 million as part of the Emergency Food Assistance Program, run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In Spokane County, that equates to a cancellation of around $405,000 in federal food dollars, or 8.6% of the total reduction.

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