USDA Announces Actions to Better Serve States, Nutrition Program Recipients, & the American Taxpayer

On April 30, 2026, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced its intention to reorganize the Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services mission area into a new Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA), replacing the Food and Nutrition Service and moving most program leadership and staff out of Washington, D.C. Under the plan, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program moves to Indianapolis; the Child Nutrition Programs to Dallas; the Supplemental Nutrition and Safety Programs to Kansas City; research programs to Raleigh; and emergency management and continuity of operations to Denver, with retailer operations and compliance offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York. The FNA Administrator and a small staff will remain in Washington for congressional, interagency, regulatory, and policy work. USDA said the restructuring would reduce duplicative management, improve service to the states that administer its 16 nutrition assistance programs, and expand its capacity to address fraud, noting that the mission area had lacked a Senate-confirmed Under Secretary for nearly two decades. Two of the five FNA hub cities — Dallas and Denver — are outside the five hubs named in the department's July 2025 reorganization plan, which had proposed aligning the agency's regions with those hubs.