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Faith groups distribute USDA food boxes, despite Trump’s intrusion

Millions of boxes of USDA surplus food are being shipped with mandated letters from President Donald Trump asserting his concern to protect the well-being of Americans struggling through the coronavirus pandemic.

That this unprecedented action is taking place just before the November election is a fact critics decry as a cheap politicization of food and hunger.

Yet faith-based and secular food providers say they are distributing the boxes anyway—because hungry people need food.

Amy Coney Barrett on faith, politics, precedent

Some notable quotes from Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Bar­rett, a former Notre Dame law professor and current judge on the Chicago-based Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals. On September 26, President Donald Trump announced he was nominating Barrett to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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