Tons of food aid for malnutrite children rot in Dubai after the end of the support

On Wednesday the Trump government was in a dilemma, after the revelations of the American press that tons of food for 27,000 malnourished children of Pakistan and Afghanistan will be incinerated because they are overcome at a time when the United States are drastically reducing their international aid. Thursday (17), from the efforts of the White House and the Doge Commission created by Elon Musk, the United States Senate has approved a bill that will allow the government to avoid the expense of about $ 9 billion in public funds, mainly intended for international aid.

On Wednesday the Trump government was in a dilemma, after the revelations of the American press that tons of food for 27,000 malnourished children of Pakistan and Afghanistan will be incinerated because they are overcome at a time when the United States are drastically reducing their international aid. Thursday (17), from the efforts of the White House and the Doge Commission created by Elon Musk, the United States Senate has approved a bill that will allow the government to avoid the expense of about $ 9 billion in public funds, mainly intended for international aid.

Following the closure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), several tons of food aid financed by the United States for malnutrite children in Pakistan and Afghanistan have expired in the warehouses in Dubai. The goods have not been redistributed and will now be destroyed. In recent months, American Press has warned the situation, but without results.

To Michael Rigas, at the head of the administration and staff of the State Department, this problem was asked before the Commission for Foreign Relations of the Senate. Pressed by the Democrat Tim Kaine, he recognized that this food help would actually be destroyed.

“Knowing months in which these foods were valid, why did the State Department decided to burn them instead of distributing them to hungry children?” The senator criticized. “I don’t have a satisfactory answer to this question, I’m anguished like you,” Michael Rigas replied.

$ 130.000 will be spent to incinerate $ 800,000 in food

Senator Kaine said he raised the problem with the secretary of state Marco Rubio already in March and regretted that nothing had been done, with the government “preferring to keep the warehouse closed, let the food expire and then burn them,” he said.

Michael Rigas has finally recognized that this was a direct consequence of USAID’s closure. In front of the senators, he promised to investigate the dispute.

According to the magazine The AtlanticThe United States bought cookie packages at the end of the Joe Biden government for about $ 800,000. Finally, the Americans will spend other $ 130,000 to destroy them. In total, there will be 500 tons of stagnant foods in Dubai, previously destined to feed 27,000 children with acute malnutrition in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

After more than six decades, Usaid ceased to officially exist on 1 July as part of the huge budget cuts requested by the Trump administration, which he considered Usaid he was not meeting the interests of the United States. The agency was incorporated into the State Department. His sudden closure caused a crisis in the circles of the distribution of humanitarian aid.

The United States Senate approves the budget cuts requested by Trump

Despite a republican majority of 53 of the 100 seats, the vote was won with only 51 votes in favor and 48 against.

The republican senators Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) voted against, while their colleague of the Kentucky Mitch McConnell, who had opposed the bill like them last Wednesday, voted for this period.

The vote was linked 50-50 on Wednesday, during the preliminary analysis of the amendments, and was the vice-president JD Vance to have the last word, as requested by the Constitution, to bring the text to the final vote on Thursday.

The bill concerns almost $ 8 billion which was intended for the Usaid development assistance agency, with the rest to be assigned mainly to public media NPR and PBS.

(With information from AFP)

Source: Terra

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