[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 151 (Tuesday, September 16, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4320]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 RELEASE FOOD AID SITTING FOR 9 MONTHS

  (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, I rise for the 40th time to call 
on the Trump administration to restore lifesaving food aid for 
malnourished children.
  When kids are starving to death, their organs break down. Even if we 
are able to feed them conventional food, they cannot digest it. It 
takes specialized nutrition to bring them back to health, including the 
nutrition manufactured by Edesia Nutrition in North Kingstown, Rhode 
Island, in my district, where thousands of boxes of emergency food aid 
have been sitting in a warehouse since Donald Trump and Elon Musk froze 
the program back in January.
  They continue to promise that the program is going to come back 
online any day now and that those boxes will be shipped, but it has 
been 9 months.
  Starving children cannot survive on promises. They cannot survive on 
words. They cannot survive on tweets, purchase orders, or RFPs. They 
need this food aid to move.
  The administration needs to keep its word and act with urgency, and I 
will speak on this floor every day until they do.

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