[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 120 (Monday, July 14, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H3209]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 LIVES LOST DUE TO U.S. ENDING FOOD AID

  (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 27th time to call on 
the Trump administration to restore funding for lifesaving food aid for 
malnourished children.
  According to data compiled by Boston University, more than 70,000 
children--children--have died this year because the Trump 
administration has frozen food aid that had been delivered by this 
country for years prior. This is the real-time human cost of inaction.
  Again, the Trump administration has said that they are going to 
restore this aid. They have been saying it for months. Marco Rubio said 
it. Elon Musk said it when he was still at the administration. They 
haven't done it.
  A month ago, they said that they were going to issue an RFP now and 
get this aid moving again. The RFP was issued. Nonprofit organizations, 
including Edesia Nutrition, have responded to it. The administration 
has been sitting on it for a month.
  What are they waiting for? Every day that they fail to act is a day 
that children die. They need to keep their word. Restore this aid.

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