Lisa Desjardins:
The total spending for a year is about a billion dollars.
There are other important nonprofit cuts. And we’re raising this because this is really where I think local areas are feeling the Trump administration effects on a personal level, for example, FEMA. There’s a program that is also almost a billion dollars which helps communities get ready, be more resilient, build up perhaps dilapidated infrastructure that’s at risk for hurricanes. That’s been cut suddenly.
Also, how about USDA? There are programs, again, $600 million to almost a billion dollars, that would take local food from farms and give it to — gives it to school lunch programs, also to food banks.
We spoke to someone here runs a food bank in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in Exton, Pennsylvania. They said they just recently were — suddenly had canceled $100,000 worth of food, pork chops, eggs, things that their clients need, that it’s the only fresh food they have. They have made up for that in the meantime, but they’re not sure what the future holds and there are real concerns.
