Trump Admin to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Meant for Children
Source: daily beast
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OUTRAGEOUS
Tom Sanders Published 07.15.25 11:48AM EDT
The Trump administration has ordered 500 metric tons of emergency food aid—enough to feed 1.5 million malnourished children for a week—to be incinerated tomorrow rather than be distributed as part of its ongoing purge of USAID. The high-energy biscuits, intended for children under five living in war and disaster zones, are currently being stored in a warehouse in Dubai and were meant to be shipped out this year, but will instead go to waste due to cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effectively halting nearly all forms of foreign aid. Current and former aid workers, speaking anonymously for fear of retaliation, told The Atlantic that the sheer scale of waste is unprecedented. Despite repeated assurances from the administration not to eliminate food aid, U.S. warehouses around the world currently house 60,000 tons of food, including peas and cereal originally bound for famine-stricken Sudan, which the administration is now unable to deliver even if it wanted to after gutting USAID and firing logistical experts. According to The Atlantic, the amount of food set to be incinerated tomorrow would be enough to feed every single child currently starving in Gaza.
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I called my congressman about this but Rep. Derrick Van Ordan is a Trump boot licker!!
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It gets harder and harder to come up with words to fully express how I feel about *gestures at evergthing* but indefensible and despicable are definitely on the list. 
But I'm at the point where I hope this man dies a horrible death. Soon.
Destroying enough food to feed every starving kid in Gaza. Only an insane sadist would do that. Just peas and cereal, and the Big Mac gobbling goon can't even let them have that.
since I'm sure many countries and aid groups would gladly arrange to come pick it up at no cost to the US taxpayer. The UN would take it. Red Crescent would take it.
MAGA would rather burn it out of spite. 
In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told representatives on the House Appropriations Committee that he would ensure that food aid would reach its intended recipients before spoiling. But by then, the order to incinerate the biscuits (which I later reviewed) had already been sent. Rubio has insisted that the administration embraces America’s responsibility to continue saving foreign lives, including through food aid. But in April, according to NPR, the U.S. government eliminated all humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and Yemen, where, the State Department said at the time, providing food risks benefiting terrorists. (The State Department has offered no similar justification for pulling aid to Pakistan.) Even if the administration was unwilling to send the biscuits to the originally intended countries, other places—Sudan, say, where war is fueling the world’s worst famine in decades—could have benefited.
These mofos
Trump is their God.
If there is a hell, they will all burn in it.
Especially hymn singing hypocrites like Mike Johnson.
What I really think about this but be assured that it is a solution, one that is currently unacceptable... but that may change in time.
