After nearly 3 million pounds of food aid cancelled, impacts across Michigan vary

While Michigan food banks lost nearly 3 million pounds of food in cancelled deliveries through August 2025, the actual impact on the organizations varied widely.

In March, $500 million was cut in funding for the Commodity Credit Corporation, a program that provides food to food banks and other emergency food providers through The Emergency Food Assistance Program, another Department of Agriculture program. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture data obtained by ProPublica, this meant that around 94 million pounds of food never reached those food banks.

For some Michigan groups, especially those that faced greater losses, these cuts have made it more difficult to continue to serve their communities.

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