Secretary Rollins refuses to end the SNAP funding crisis

Nutrition and food safety at risk amid government shutdown

The 2025 government shutdown has put SNAP and WIC funding, food safety, and healthcare at risk for millions of people.

Trump scraps the nation’s most comprehensive food insecurity report − making it harder to know how many Americans struggle to get enough food

The Trump administration announced on Sept. 20, 2025, that it plans to stop releasing food insecurity data. The federal government has tracked and analyzed this data for the past three decades, but it plans to stop after publishing statistics pertaining to 2024 data.

CSPI urges swift shutdown resolution to ensure critical food safety and nutrition programs are operational

Not reporting on hunger doesn’t make it go away: CSPI condemns reckless USDA move on food insecurity report

A tale of two agendas: Trump’s contradictory approach toward small farmers

President Trump’s Farmers First Policy Agenda and proposed FY26 budget show hypocrisy in the administration’s approach to nutrition security and agriculture.

RFK, Jr.’s MAHA report favors voluntary industry action over regulation

What has public health done for us lately? Soon, we may not know

Commentary from CSPI Director of Regulatory Affairs Sarah Sorscher on the public health effects of funding cuts for CDC, FDA, and USDA food safety tracking systems like FoodNet, PulseNet, and CORE.

Nutrition advocates call on USDA to immediately halt proposed reorganization

NANA coalition public comment in response to USDA reorganization plan

The undersigned members of the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA) coalition, a network of more than 520 local, state, and national organizations dedicated to improving public health and reducing the burden of chronic disease urge you to reconsider the reorganization of the United States Department of Agriculture outlined in Secretary Memorandum: SM 1078-015.