WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to end its annual food insecurity survey will make it harder to measure the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to nutrition programs such as food stamps, anti-hunger advocates said on Monday.

The USDA on Saturday announced it was canceling the Household Food Security report because it was redundant, costly and politicized. It said it would instead use “the bevy of more timely and accurate data sets available.”

But the report, which gathers data through the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey and has been published since 1998, is the only data set with state as well as national statistics and is crucial to assessing the efficacy of government programs, according to food security experts.

“To say it’s duplicative is a

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