Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration,

Trumps funding cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) and the Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) program are leaving food banks across the U.S. struggling to meet increasing demand.

Promising a return to “fiscally responsible initiatives,” the Agriculture Department ended two Biden-era programs that paid farmers to provide food to schools and low-income families.