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Restoring Lifesaving Food Aid

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 4, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, I rise for the 36th time to call on the Trump administration to restore lifesaving food aid for starving children around the world.

Mr. Speaker, when we pull back from doing the right thing and helping meet humanitarian catastrophes, who steps in to fill the void? It is our adversaries, particularly China.

Make no mistake that last week's summit in China where Putin and Modi and the North Koreans were celebrating the demise of America's leadership in the world and the rise of authoritarianism, this was one of the issues that drove that meeting.

It wasn't just those big powers who were there. It was dozens of smaller countries from the developing world who are alarmed at the retreat of U.S. leadership and looking for help elsewhere. This hurts our national security.

The Trump administration needs to do what they said they were going to do and restore lifesaving food aid around the world. I will keep speaking out every day until they do.

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