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Food For Millions Rots in Storage After Trumps USAID CutsOver 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 foodenough to feed 3.5 million people for a monthis sitting unused in foreign countries because of the Trump administrations 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 USAIDs rapid dismantling by the Trump administration and a pause on the contracts and funds needed to ship supplies to where they are needed.
Blues Heron
(8,348 posts)He can eat them all, the nasty pig.
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)Voted for trump but didnt vote for that. He loves his stupid people. Gosh if the black woman were elected that food would not be sitting unused. Thats what the heart and soul of the Republican Party is doing. Sitting unused.
Miles Archer
(21,758 posts)...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)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)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.
Emile
(40,591 posts)Miles Archer
(21,758 posts)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,