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The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission report released today fails to recognize the inextricable link between hunger and health. Nearly 14 million children in this country live in households that struggle to get the nutrition they need, threatening their growth and development and increasing their risk of chronic disease. Hunger is a major driver of poor health and must be addressed as a public health crisis.

Washington, MAY 22, 2025 Today’s passage of the House budget bill marks a devastating reversal in the fight against hunger in America. The vote along party lines (215–214) to upend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by permanently changing its structure and cutting $300 billion over the next decade will take food off the table for millions of families, children, older adults, veterans, and people with disabilities while also harming farmers, grocers, state and local governments, and the overall economy.

WASHINGTON, May 14, 2025 — The House Agriculture Committee sent a clear message that the health, economic stability, and dignity of tens of millions of people in this country who struggle to put food on the table are last on their priority list. The committee’s budget reconciliation bill, passed tonight (29-25 along party lines), would slash over $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation’s most effective anti-hunger tool, and shift costs to already overburdened state and local governments. See FRAC’s analysis of the bill. Cuts to SNAP, combined with cuts to Medicaid and economic mobility programs, will lead to increased hunger and poverty.

WASHINGTON, May 14, 2025 – The Board of Directors of the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) has selected Crystal FitzSimons to serve as president of the national anti-hunger organization after a nationwide search facilitated by Boardwalk Consulting. FitzSimons has been with FRAC for 26 years, most recently serving as FRAC’s interim president since July 2024. 

WASHINGTON, April 30, 2025 — While school meals appear to be spared from the budget chopping block, the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) is deeply troubled that the House Education and Workforce Committee is proposing to cut more than $330 billion from federal student aid programs for college students with low incomes.