[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H2407]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            EDESIA NUTRITION

  (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 14th time to demand 
restoration of funding for global food aid for malnourished children.
  It has been 1 month since I began speaking on this floor every 
legislative day and 4 months since this aid was frozen, when the Trump 
administration began.
  Since then, hundreds of thousands of children around the world have 
not been able to get the lifesaving food aid that they need because the 
funding has been cut off.
  During a normal year, Edesia Nutrition in North Kingstown, Rhode 
Island, produces enough of this nutritional paste to save the lives of 
400,000 children in a single month. Yet, those production lines have 
slowed to a near halt. Warehouses are full of this product when they 
should be getting shipped to the children who need it.
  We have heard enough excuses from the administration. They keep 
saying that they intend to restore emergency food aid, but they have 
yet to actually do so. They need to act instead of just giving us 
hollow words.

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