Bread for the City v. United States Department of Agriculture

RANDOLPH, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the order of the district court dismissing a complaint for failure to state a cause of action. Bread for the City, Inc. v. United States Dep’t of Agriculture, 211 F.Supp.3d 327 (D.D.C. 2016). The complaint, filed by Bread for the City, Inc., alleged that the Department of Agriculture spent hundreds of millions of dollars less than the law required on a program to provide food for the needy.

The district court upheld the Agriculture Department’s interpretation of 7 U.S.C. § 2036(a), a spending provision in The Emergency Food Assistance…