Mr. Mayor, precisely because city anti-hunger programs are so inadequate, large numbers of New Yorkers, including an appalling number of children, do go hungry.

It is clear that food insecurity is an unfortunate reality among children, senior citizens and adults in all five boroughs. It is also clear that it is a very solvable problem.

When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny.

Donald Trump is launching his own nonprofit group: Borders without Doctors.

The good news is that, if the city did a better job of enabling eligible people to obtain federal food stamp benefits, the city could easily receive that much additional federal funding, thereby eliminating the vast majority of the city's hunger problem.

This obviously shows a fair amount of disarray. They really went from bad to worse, from taking an ongoing bad policy decision and making us think they were going to do the right thing, then pulling the rug out from under a whole lot of hungry people.