Two months after President Donald Trump enacted the biggest-ever cut to federal food assistance, his administration ended a key yearly report on food insecurity, drawing widespread condemnation Monday from critics who accused the president of once again trying to hide the harms of his policies.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Saturday that it will stop publishing its annual Household Food Security reports, claiming that the surveys — which are the federal government’s primary means of gauging hunger — “failed to present anything more than subjective, liberal fodder.”

“These redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous studies do nothing more than fear-monger,” USDA added.

Experts warned that the USDA’s move will make it more difficult to track the harmful effects

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