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Incinerating 500 Tons of Emergency Food Aid

Floor Speech

Date: July 22, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. MAGAZINER. Madam Speaker, I rise for the 32nd time to call on the Trump administration to restore lifesaving food aid for malnourished children.

Last week, it was reported that the Trump administration is incinerating 500 tons of emergency food aid because it expired while sitting in a warehouse. This is food that had already been paid for, had already been produced, and was just waiting to be shipped to starving people who needed it to survive. Instead, it is being incinerated.

In my district in Rhode Island, 87,000 boxes of lifesaving nutrition are sitting in Edesia Nutrition's warehouse. It is already paid for, already produced, and waiting to be shipped. This is food aid that is designed to treat starving children whose organs have shut down to the point where they cannot process normal food.

Madam Speaker, what are we doing here? This is food that is already paid for, already produced, and sitting in warehouses while kids starve.

I am going to stand on this floor every day until the administration honors its word and restores lifesaving food aid.

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