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Miles Archer

(21,758 posts)
Sat May 17, 2025, 06:58 AM May 2025

60,000+ tons of U.S. food is going to waste in warehouses after Trump's USAID Cuts. Food for MILLIONS.

Food For Millions Rots in Storage After Trump’s USAID Cuts

Over 60,000 tons of U.S. food is going to waste in warehouses while millions starve and children die.

Roughly 60,000 metric tons of food—enough to feed 3.5 million people for a month—is sitting unused in foreign countries because of the Trump administration’s sudden cut in funding to USAID earlier this year.

According to sources speaking to Reuters, the rations are spread across four warehouses in Houston, Djibouti, Durban, and Dubai and comprise cereals, pulses, and cooking oil. The food, valued at $98 million, was intended for emergency distribution in hunger-stricken regions including Gaza, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Most of it will now end up in incinerators or as animal feed.

Nearly 500 tons of high-energy biscuits in Dubai are set to expire in July, one former USAID official told Reuters. They could have fed 27,000 acutely malnourished children for a month.

The failure stems from USAID’s rapid dismantling by the Trump administration and a pause on the contracts and funds needed to ship supplies to where they are needed.
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Blues Heron

(8,348 posts)
1. Send it all to Elon's house and just keep dumping it there. Bury the thing in expired high energy biscuits.
Sat May 17, 2025, 07:05 AM
May 2025

He can eat them all, the nasty pig.

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
2. I bet farmers in Kansas, Iowa etc who grew those crops
Sat May 17, 2025, 07:05 AM
May 2025

Voted for trump but didn’t vote for that. He loves his stupid people. Gosh if the black woman were elected that food would not be “sitting unused.” That’s what the heart and soul of the Republican Party is doing. Sitting unused.

Miles Archer

(21,758 posts)
5. If the black woman were elected...
Sat May 17, 2025, 07:32 AM
May 2025

...I'll bet she would have increased the monthly orders from the farmers.

If the black woman were elected, I'll bet you could take just about everything Trump is doing right now, reverse it, and the world would be in its best shape in decades.

But no. We went with Trump because of the great job he did during the pandemic. You're right, he does love his stupid people.

Wonder Why

(6,552 posts)
10. The government probably bought that food already and the farmers are enjoying their dollars. If there
Sat May 17, 2025, 08:29 AM
May 2025

is a big outrage that the food has gone bad, the government might replace it and then it will be double dipping for those farmers.

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
3. Meanwhile, G.O.P. keeps shoveling our tax dollars to Gourmet Golffe for Krasnov (R) the Klaw Backer
Sat May 17, 2025, 07:08 AM
May 2025

Taking food out of the mouths of the hungry,
and using the money to pay for Billionaire G.O.P. Golffe
is a debased and foul pathway of perdition.

Any American who sanctions this fugly, sinful G.O.P. tradeoff
needs authentic non-huckster, non casino-hustler style redemption.

Bigly.

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Miles Archer

(21,758 posts)
6. That's the same take for Musk and Social Security.
Sat May 17, 2025, 07:35 AM
May 2025

1). Musk breaks Social Security, collapsing it from the inside.

2). Musk: "What a pity. Social Security has collapsed. I told you there were issues. Let me fix that for you."

3). Social Security gets privatized so that Musk & the Republicans can all get a "taste" and beneficiaries get screwed,

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