[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 121 (Tuesday, July 15, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H3305]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                RESTORE 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, I rise today for the 28th time to call on 
the Trump administration to restore lifesaving food aid for 
malnourished children. I see some of my friends and colleagues are here 
who perhaps haven't heard this before. I will set aside my prepared 
remarks.
  This is Plumpy'Nut. It is a peanut paste that is used to treat 
children with malnutrition whose organs are no longer able to process 
food because they are starving.
  Prior to January, the United States of America saved the lives of 
millions of children by shipping this peanut paste that is manufactured 
here in the United States to children around the world. That program 
was halted when funding for USAID was stopped by the Trump 
administration.
  However, the Trump administration has said repeatedly that they 
intend to restore funding for this program. Marco Rubio said it. Elon 
Musk said it when he was still running DOGE. They have still yet to do 
it.
  There are thousands of boxes of this product sitting in warehouses in 
Georgia and in Rhode Island. All that we need is for someone in the 
administration to sign a piece of paper to get the shipments going 
again. Every day that we do not is a day that children are starving.
  We are not asking the administration to change their policy. We are 
just asking them to deliver on their stated policy. We are asking them 
to restore the shipments and to save lives.

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