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Edesia Nutrition

Floor Speech

Date: June 3, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today for the 14th time to demand restoration of funding for global food aid for malnourished children.

It has been 1 month since I began speaking on this floor every legislative day and 4 months since this aid was frozen, when the Trump administration began.

Since then, hundreds of thousands of children around the world have not been able to get the lifesaving food aid that they need because the funding has been cut off.

During a normal year, Edesia Nutrition in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, produces enough of this nutritional paste to save the lives of 400,000 children in a single month. Yet, those production lines have slowed to a near halt. Warehouses are full of this product when they should be getting shipped to the children who need it.

We have heard enough excuses from the administration. They keep saying that they intend to restore emergency food aid, but they have yet to actually do so. They need to act instead of just giving us hollow words.

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