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Support for Edesia

Floor Speech

Date: May 5, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today for the fourth time to call for funding for lifesaving food aid to be restored by the Trump administration.

Sudan is suffering its worst famine in four decades. Without immediate help, hundreds of thousands could die. Mothers are walking for days in search of food, and children collapsing into their arms from hunger.

For years, the United States has stepped up in the face of these tragedies. Edesia, an organization in my district in Rhode Island, produces ready-made, ready-to-use food therapeutics called Plumpy'Nut that has saved millions of lives in Sudan and more than 60 other countries.

The Trump administration has stopped submitting new orders, and now boxes of this lifesaving food intended for Sudan sits in warehouses in Rhode Island awaiting a transportation contract to be approved while children starve.

Trump administration officials continue to say that they intend to resume shipping this emergency food aid, but they have yet to do so.

Keep your promise. Restart the aid.

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