Montanans are feeling the loss after the Trump administration cut more than a billion dollars for food aid programs.

In the Mission Valley, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Food Sovereignty program distributed thousands of boxes of locally produced food to the community. The program was primarily supported by federal grants the Trump administration eliminated.

Food Sovereignty Program Director Dana Hewankorn says the program will be scaled down.

“We might be able to do much smaller distributions, but nothing on the scale that we’ve been doing at this point,” Hewankorn says.

Many of these federal grants supported the development of local food programs for schools and daycares. About one in six children in Montana live in a food-insecure household.

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