(MENAFN) The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Saturday it will permanently halt publication of the long-standing Household Food Security Reports, ending over three decades of data collection on food insecurity across the United States.

“These redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous studies do nothing more than fear monger,” the USDA said in a press release. “For 30 years ... this study failed to present anything more than subjective, liberal fodder.”

Published annually since the mid-1990s, the report has served as a critical resource for government agencies at all levels. Policymakers have relied on its findings to allocate funding and evaluate the performance of food-assistance programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

The cancellation follows a sweeping funding reduction to SNAP, enacted through what U.S. President Donald Trump called a “big beautiful” bill signed in July. The legislation significantly scaled back resources for the program, formerly known as food stamps, which provides nutritional aid to low-income households.

As a result of the budget cuts, an estimated 2.4 million Americans—many of them families with children—are expected to lose access to SNAP benefits, according to projections from the Congressional Budget Office.

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