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Restore Funding for Lifesaving Food Aid

Floor Speech

Date: June 23, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today for the 22nd time to call on the Trump administration to restore funding for lifesaving food aid for malnourished children.

Today, I remind this Chamber that this is not just a moral issue. It is a national security issue. Lieutenant General John Bednarek said: ``Anytime that we, the United States, depart an area that we used to be in, either with USAID . . . or other soft power initiatives, some foes, whether it is China, Russia, or North Korea'' fills the gap.

The general is right. Food aid helps stabilize fragile regions. It keeps our adversaries from gaining ground and good will.

Plumpy'Nut, a product manufactured in my district in Rhode Island, is a lifesaving source of nutrition for starving children around the world. The Trump administration needs to honor its word and restore the funding for this and other lifesaving food aid before more lives are lost and before our adversaries gain more ground.

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