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On the recordSeptember 16, 2025
today, I rise for the 40th time to call on the Trump administration to restore lifesaving food aid for malnourished children. When kids are starving to death, their organs break down. Even if we are able to feed them conventional food, they cannot digest it. It takes specialized nutrition to bring them back to health, including the nutrition manufactured by Edesia Nutrition in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, in my district, where thousands of boxes of emergency food aid have been sitting in a warehouse since Donald Trump and Elon Musk froze the program back in January. They continue to promise that the program is going to come back online any day now and that those boxes will be shipped, but it has been 9 months. Starving children cannot survive on promises. They cannot survive on words. They cannot survive on tweets, purchase orders, or RFPs. They need this food aid to move. The administration needs to keep its word and act with urgency, and I will speak on this floor every day until they do.
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Seth Magaziner
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Calling for the restoration of food aid for malnourished children during a speech on the House floor.

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