[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 74 (Monday, May 5, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1843]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           SUPPORT FOR EDESIA

  (Mr. MAGAZINER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today for the fourth time to call 
for funding for lifesaving food aid to be restored by the Trump 
administration.
  Sudan is suffering its worst famine in four decades. Without 
immediate help, hundreds of thousands could die. Mothers are walking 
for days in search of food, and children collapsing into their arms 
from hunger.
  For years, the United States has stepped up in the face of these 
tragedies. Edesia, an organization in my district in Rhode Island, 
produces ready-made, ready-to-use food therapeutics called Plumpy'Nut 
that has saved millions of lives in Sudan and more than 60 other 
countries.
  The Trump administration has stopped submitting new orders, and now 
boxes of this lifesaving food intended for Sudan sits in warehouses in 
Rhode Island awaiting a transportation contract to be approved while 
children starve.
  Trump administration officials continue to say that they intend to 
resume shipping this emergency food aid, but they have yet to do so.
  Keep your promise. Restart the aid.

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