Calling on Trump Administration to Restore Lifesaving Food Aid

Floor Speech

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Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today for the 26th time to call on the Trump administration to honor its word and restore funding for lifesaving food aid around the world.

Mr. Speaker, the words from the Trump administration have been pretty good on this. Elon Musk said that funding for emergency food aid will be restored. Marco Rubio has repeatedly said he was going to do it. They even got FOX News to write a glowing online article about their plans to restore funding.

Yet, it has been 6 months since they cut this funding off. It has been 6 months, and every day that they wait is another day that children die of starvation unnecessarily.

Every day, there are children whose organs are shutting down, who are unable to eat conventional food, and who can only have their lives saved by ready-to-use therapeutic food manufactured in the United States.

Every day, the clock is ticking. The administration needs to do what it said it is going to do: restore funding for this aid. I will continue to stand on this floor every day until they do.

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