Food shipment to Harvesters canceled amid DOGE cuts

TOPEKA (KSNT) - A Topeka food bank learned earlier this week an upcoming shipment of food is canceled due to spending cuts at the federal level.

27 News spoke with a Harvesters spokesman who said the cuts were brought on by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Emergency Food Assistance program. The scheduled shipment to Harvesters in Kansas and Missouri included 41,000 cases of healthy and fresh food including 2.4 million pounds of meat, poultry, eggs, dairy and fruit.

Harvesters was set to distribute the food to local families in April. Despite these cuts, Harvesters intends to continue with its upcoming distributions but reports future deliveries to the communities it serves may change.

Harvesters served people in 27 counties across Kansas and Missouri with more than 54,000,000 meals in 2024 alone, according to its Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report. You can learn more about Harvesters by heading to its website.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk's losing streak continued on Wednesday.

Hours after Republicans in Wisconsin lost a state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin where Musk spent tens of millions of dollars of his own money, shares of his flagship electric car company fell upon news that it had badly missed Wall Street estimates for the number of vehicles it had delivered in the first quarter of 2025.

As reported by Market Watch, Tesla revealed that "it delivered more than 336,000 vehicles during the first quarter, down from 387,000 deliveries a year ago."

To put this number into context, Market Watch notes that it "was well below the average analyst estimate compiled by FactSet of 404,000 vehicles" and it "was also lower than the 'whisper' number, or what Wall Street was quietly expecting, with even the most bullish analyst projecting a number in the 360,000 range."

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Although Tesla blamed the disappointing deliveries on what Market Watch describes as "the changeover to refreshed Model Y production lines" that "led to several weeks of lost production," it's also a reality that the company has been the target of a concerted boycott campaign led by progressive groups to protest Musk's role as the head of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.

Sales of Tesla in Europe have fallen off a cliff in recent months, as car buyers on that continent have revolted against Musk's support for far-right political parties such as Germany's Alternative für Deutschland.