[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 153 (Thursday, September 18, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4423]
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                            EDESIA NUTRITION

  (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 for the 42nd time to call on the 
Trump administration to restore lifesaving food aid for starving 
children. Edesia Nutrition, an organization in my district, 
manufactures Plumpy'Nut, a nutritional supplement that helps starving 
children get back to health.
  Their production has been largely shut down since the Trump 
administration froze the program in January. I have been speaking out 
on this floor for months, calling on that program to be restored.
  We have had an interesting challenge that we have been trying to 
figure out which is: When do we declare victory? I think that every day 
I come up here might be my last. Time after time, the Trump 
administration has said they will restore the program. They put in 
purchase orders. They put out RFPs. They have tweeted. They have 
posted. They have testified this program will be restarted. Yet, 
thousands of boxes remain stuck in a warehouse in Rhode Island, instead 
of getting to the children who need it.
  Mr. Speaker, I will continue to speak on this floor every day until 
those boxes move because promises and intentions are not enough to save 
the lives of starving children.

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