Funding for Edesia's Plumpy'nut

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Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, today the House majority took a shameful vote to cut billions of dollars of aid that goes to PEPFAR to treat people around the world with HIV. They cut aid for malaria. They cut aid for clean water around the world.

Thankfully, this bill did not cut funding for emergency food aid like Plumpy'Nut. The problem is that even though this funding has not been cut and it is still available, the Trump administration still continues to hold up the money instead of getting it to companies like Edesia in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, who manufacture this food aid to ship it around the world. We continue to have a now 5-month pause in the delivery of emergency food aid to starving children.

The Trump administration needs to keep its word to deliver this food aid. The money is available so that lives can be saved.

This is the 2lst time that I have spoken on the House floor demanding that the Trump administration restore emergency food aid. I will continue to speak every legislative day until they do it.

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