[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 101 (Thursday, June 12, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H2813]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    FUNDING FOR EDESIA'S PLUMPY'NUT

  (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, today the House majority took a shameful 
vote to cut billions of dollars of aid that goes to PEPFAR to treat 
people around the world with HIV. They cut aid for malaria. They cut 
aid for clean water around the world.
  Thankfully, this bill did not cut funding for emergency food aid like 
Plumpy'Nut. The problem is that even though this funding has not been 
cut and it is still available, the Trump administration still continues 
to hold up the money instead of getting it to companies like Edesia in 
North Kingstown, Rhode Island, who manufacture this food aid to ship it 
around the world. We continue to have a now 5-month pause in the 
delivery of emergency food aid to starving children.
  The Trump administration needs to keep its word to deliver this food 
aid. The money is available so that lives can be saved.
  This is the 2lst time that I have spoken on the House floor demanding 
that the Trump administration restore emergency food aid. I will 
continue to speak every legislative day until they do it.

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