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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    2012 hours 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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    1418 hours 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.

  • @RunningInRVA
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    5624 hours ago

    This is what we all wanted, right?

    • @[email protected]
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      1016 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        1118 hours 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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          314 hours ago

          Were the farmers already paid or…?

          • Natanael
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            214 hours ago

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

  • @ZILtoid1991
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    818 hours ago

    “But condoms for Hamas…”

  • Nougat
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    371 day 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.

    • Flying Squid
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      821 hours ago

      Where do you get your eggs that cheap?!

        • Flying Squid
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          721 hours ago

          Sorry, egg price jokes won’t stop being funny until Americans stop giving Trump the positive polling he currently has.

          • @Klear
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            418 hours ago

            They sure have an egg on their faces!

  • @NotMyOldRedditName
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    1323 hours 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!