$489 million in food could spoil thanks to Trump: report

[microwave@lemmy.world]

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.

[nougat@fedia.io]

The moral thing to do here is to commandeer that food and distribute it however you can before it spoils.

Waste not want not.

[runninginrva@lemmy.world]

This is what we all wanted, right?

[henfredemars@infosec.pub]

I'm sure this will make staple foods cheaper for Americans.

[notmyoldredditname@lemmy.world]

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!

[satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world]

So Trump is wasting five eggs?

[superkret@feddit.org]

That would probably land you in prison for 20 years.

[nougat@fedia.io]

Not if there’s enough of you.

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

Where do you get your eggs that cheap?!

[iheartcheese@lemmy.world]

Further egg joke

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

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

[hansolo@lemm.ee]

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.

[klear@lemmy.world]

They sure have an egg on their faces!

[mke_geek@lemm.ee]

He doesn't care.

[ziltoid1991@lemmy.world]

"But condoms for Hamas..."

[spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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.

[sepi@piefed.social]

Were the farmers already paid or...?

[barbudo@lemm.ee]

Lol and the condom aid being for a Gaza in Mozambique and not the Middle East is hilarious

[natanael@infosec.pub]

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

[bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

We have to work against all directives coming from this government now