PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) — Food pantries in Maine are feeling the weight of looming funding cuts from the Trump administration, which are complicating the needs they already had.
Groups like the Good Shepherd Food Bank say that cuts to the Agriculture Department will mean more Mainers will go hungry.
Two USDA programs are being cut that help support food insecure Mainers, one of which is the Local Food Purchasing Assistance (LFPA) program, which helped purchase locally grown food for pantries.
“Most of our partners across the state are going to see a reduction in both the amount of fresh food from local Maine farms and the shelf stable pantry items that they rely on,” Robin McCarthy, chief advancement officer for the Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine, said.
“It’s a little bit of a feeling of uncertainty in a time where a lot of other things are uncertain for many people, and that’s a challenge, definitely, for all of the people that we work with and all of those that we serve who come through our lines,” Rosalani Moore, executive director of H.O.M.E. Inc., said.
Good Shepherd contracts to distribute federally funded food to around 600 food pantries in Maine.
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