USDA Faces Scrutiny Over Food for Peace After DOGE Gutted US Aid
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Updated · NPR · Jul 7
USDA Faces Scrutiny Over Food for Peace After DOGE Gutted US Aid
3 articles · Updated · NPR · Jul 7
Summary
Hunger specialists say the USDA is steering Food for Peace away from its humanitarian purpose after lawmakers shifted the revived program under the department.
That criticism follows DOGE's demolition of broader US international food aid, which prompted farm-state lawmakers to resurrect Food for Peace through the USDA.
The dispute centers on who should control a flagship US food-aid program and whether farm and commodity interests are overtaking emergency hunger relief.
The fight highlights a wider reshaping of US foreign assistance, with Food for Peace becoming a test of whether aid policy is driven by humanitarian or domestic agricultural priorities.