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Every time the media makes an argument for USAID, the argument ends up turning against USAID.
USAID advocates argued that we must keep plowing money into foreign aid because the agency used to buy only 41% of its food from U.S. farmers and what will they possibly do with the wheat unless we ship it to Somalia?
The current fallback position is that USAID has $489 million worth of food sitting in warehouses and it’ll spoil unless we ship it to Somalia.
Almost $500 million in food aid is at risk of spoilage as it sits in ports, ships and warehouses after funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, was paused by the Trump administration, according to a Feb. 10 report from a government watchdog. While the future of USAID’s funding and its purchases from U.S. farmers remains unclear, there is currently $489 million worth …
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