GARDEN GROVE, CA - May 09: Workers pack boxes for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program at The Orange County Food Bank in Garden Grove, CA on Friday, May 9, 2025. The program serves about 25,000 local lower-income seniors. The program could lose federal money if the Trump administration's preferred 2026 federal budget becomes law. (Photo by Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images) MediaNews Group via Getty Images

By the time families sit down for Thanksgiving dinner next year, millions of Americans may have permanently lost access to food assistance programs. That reality sits uneasily beside another trend shaping national policy: a growing, bipartisan desire to improve the nutritional quality of what Americans eat.

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