Summary

A watchdog report warns that nearly $500 million in food aid is at risk of spoiling due to Trump’s freeze on most foreign aid and USAID staff furloughs.

Despite exemptions for emergency food assistance, confusion and lack of oversight have delayed shipments worldwide. The report highlights USAID’s inability to monitor aid distribution, raising concerns about security risks.

Trump’s actions, part of a broader attack on foreign aid, have drawn bipartisan criticism.

A federal judge ordered USAID workers reinstated, but the administration has reportedly continued blocking access.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 month ago

        It’s food purchased already from farmers. If it rots or not, it doesn’t affect Americans.

        It does affect all the people who were already supposed to get it as food aid.

        • sepi
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          31 month ago

          Were the farmers already paid or…?

          • Natanael
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            21 month ago

            If it wasn’t then most of those farmers would find other buyers

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      Definitely all the people who told us both sides were the same, or that Kamala would be just as bad.

      They knew what they were doing.

  • Nougat
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    371 month ago

    The moral thing to do here is to commandeer that food and distribute it however you can before it spoils.

    Waste not want not.

  • @[email protected]
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    241 month ago

    Donald Trump isn’t just evil. Donald Trump is stupid.

    Not only does his agenda not further the interests of America, it doesn’t further the professed values of the Republican Party.

    The sole guiding principle of the Republican Party is: Hurt the right people.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 month ago

    To clarify, nearly all of this food has already left the United States, except for 1 warehouse in Houston. It’s already been paid for, and as it sits, it costs money to store it.

    This is like buying 3 dozen eggs from Whole Foods and setting them in the hot sun after you get home because you decided to punch yourself in the face until you passed out before putting them away.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 month ago

    The report, which the inspector general of the U.S. Agency for International Development published late Monday afternoon

    Thats the problem, they didn’t fire this inspector yet!