VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Hampton Roads food banks have lost at least $1 million worth of anticipated food shipments as a result of cuts under the Trump administration.

ProPublica first reported how cuts to the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) contributed to, at the time, at least 94 million pounds of food that never got delivered to food banks across the country.

In Coastal Virginia, both of the prominent food banks in the region — the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore as well as the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank — confirmed those cuts impacted them as well.

“Any food bank CEO can understand there are times when resources go down. But the thing is, it was cut after it was already promised. So the shipment is coming, and now it’s not. Food banks don’t have the

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