[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 110 (Thursday, June 26, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H2978-H2979]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        TRUMP ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO HONOR ITS WORD ON FOOD AID

  (Mr. Magaziner of Rhode Island was recognized to address the House 
for 5 minutes.)
  Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today for the 25th time to demand 
that the Trump administration restore funding for lifesaving food aid 
for malnourished children.
  This is Plumpy'Nut. It is a fortified peanut paste that has saved 
millions of lives by getting safe nutrition to children in hard-to-
reach places around the world. Until recently, this was being shipped 
by USAID to war-torn and famine-torn areas all over the world, saving 
lives under Democratic and Republican administrations, until the Trump 
administration dismantled USAID. As a result, children are starving 
around the world.
  Here in the United States, the production lines that create this 
product are virtually shut down. Edesia Nutrition in my district in 
Rhode Island and Mana Nutrition in Georgia get all of their ingredients 
from U.S. farmers. This is all produced in the United States. When it 
is shipped around the world, it is shipped in boxes that say: ``From 
the American People.''
  This is not just about saving lives, though this does save lives. It 
is also about strengthening America's standing in the world. When we 
pull back and stop providing food aid for starving kids around the 
world, our adversaries, particularly China, are happy to step into the 
void. They are doing so already.
  Next week, we will celebrate the Fourth of July, a day when we 
reflect with pride on the Nation that we have always been and the 
values that we stand for. This year, let's reflect on those values of 
charity and leadership, those values that have, under Democratic and 
Republican administrations, guided our foreign policy.
  Here is the thing: The Trump administration, while cutting off 
funding for ready-to-use therapeutic food, has also been insisting that 
it is just temporary and that the funding is going to come back. Elon 
Musk even put out a tweet where he named the factory in my district and 
said they are going to get their funding back. Marco Rubio repeatedly, 
including in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that 
funding for emergency food aid would be restored. They leaked a story 
to FOX News about how they were restoring food aid.
  The money hasn't come yet, and this is still sitting in warehouses in 
Rhode Island instead of being shipped to the children who need it. It 
has been 6 months. What is taking so long?

  What we need is for the Trump administration to not change its policy 
but to honor its word. They say that they are going to do this, so do 
it already.
  I will continue to stand on the House floor every single day until 
they do. Restore the funding now.


                Go After Criminals, Not Innocent People

  Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, Donald Trump and Homeland Security 
Secretary Kristi Noem said that they would focus on deporting violent 
criminals and gang members, but that is not what they are doing.
  I sit on the Committee on Homeland Security. Let me tell you the data 
and facts from the administration themselves.
  More than 70 percent of the people detained or deported so far under 
the Trump administration have never been convicted of any crime. That 
is 200,000 people detained and deported who were not convicted of any 
crime.
  They are deporting mothers and grandmothers, children with cancer, 
and employees of American companies, people just trying to make a 
living. They are not only deporting people who came here illegally. 
They are going after legal green card holders and asylum-seekers, 
locking them up with no due process. Students who had the gall to write 
an op-ed expressing their opinion on a political issue are being locked 
up for deportation.
  It is all to meet the artificial quota of 3,000 per day set by 
Stephen Miller. He doesn't care whether the people he is deporting are 
criminals or not, clearly.
  They deported a 4-year-old American citizen child with cancer whose 
parents had no criminal record, and we still don't know why.
  We still haven't gotten answers about Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay 
makeup artist with no criminal record who legally sought asylum and who 
never even entered the country but was deported to a prison in El 
Salvador, a country that he is not even from.
  This week, a landscaper, Narciso Barranco, with no criminal record 
was beaten in the streets by masked agents. His three sons are all 
United States marines.

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  This has to stop. The Trump administration needs to do what they said 
they were going to do: Go after criminals, not innocent people.

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