Trump Admin Prioritizes Wall, Slashes Food for Needy
While 25 states battled to protect emergency food assistance for their most vulnerable citizens, the Trump administration was laser-focused on its border wall. This wasn't a resource issue; it was a priority issue. Less than a year earlier, then-President Trump declared a national emergency to reallocate billions from military construction to fund his wall, a move not met with 25 state lawsuits
over humanitarian concerns but rather, political posturing. It appears that 'emergency funds' is a flexible term, depending on whose emergency is being addressed. Feeding hungry families? That can wait. Building a monument to nativist ideology? That's an urgent, national security imperative. One might wonder if the children going hungry posed less of a 'security threat' than the perceived threat
at the border.