[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 194 (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4717]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             END HUNGER NOW

  (Mr. McGOVERN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, under Donald Trump, America is joining the 
ranks of other countries in all the wrong ways. Freedom House now lists 
us among nations where judges and prosecutors face political attacks.
  Reporters Without Borders says that our press freedom has sunk to a 
historic low.
  Now, Trump has crossed a line that no U.S. President ever dared 
cross: He withheld food assistance that Americans were legally entitled 
to, blocking nutrition benefits not because the country can't afford 
them but because he thinks it helps him politically.
  In my work as co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, I 
have seen brutal regimes use food as a weapon and leaders starve their 
own people to hold on to power. I never ever thought I would see a U.S. 
President try to rip a page from the same playbook.
  What a shameful moment in our history, and I will continue to fight 
to end hunger now.

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