‘$50 Is All It Takes To Save The Life Of A Child’: Seth Magaziner Demands Restoration Of Food Aid Funding

During House floor remarks on Thursday, Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI) spoke about food aid funding.

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00:00Mr. Speaker, I rise for the 10th time to call on the Trump administration to restore

00:06funding for life-saving food aid for malnourished children across the globe.

00:11$50 is all it takes to save the life of a child. Adhesion Nutrition in Rhode Island

00:18makes a life-saving paste called Plumpy Nut that for just 30 cents a packet over eight

00:25weeks can save the life of a child suffering from malnutrition. $50, 30 cents a packet,

00:34one packet a day, $50 over eight weeks, and you can save a life.

00:39This product was shipped to millions of children around the world before the Trump administration

00:43cut off funding. Now, Secretary Rubio and Elon Musk have both said that this funding will

00:50be restored, but they have yet to actually do it.

00:53So once again, I am calling along with many of my colleagues for this funding to be restored.

00:59The administration needs to live up to its word. The lives of children depend on it. And I yield

01:04back.

01:06The gentleman yield.