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However, the school district faces significant potential budget cuts as DOGE impacts school food funding Recently, the Trump administration’s professed zeal for cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse” in federal spending resulted in the announcement of massive cuts to USDA pro­grams such as sourcing local foods for school meals and food banks. According to recent reporting from The Denver Post, Colorado stands to lose $13.1 million in such funding. Now, schools and food banks around Colorado, as well as the rest of the country, are scrambling to replace that funding. “We don’t know what’s going on,” said Custer County School Superintendent Thom Peck: “The USDA oversees breakfast, lunch, and snack programs.” The state of Colorado has its own free school lunch pro­gram, Healthy Meals for All,…