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Tens of thousands of tons of food purchased through a federal program to feed hungry people overseas is stuck at a warehouse in Houston's port after President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause on foreign aid, according to an email from an international food agency and an employee with the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The pause comes as the Trump administration moves to dismantle USAID, one of the world's largest government aid organizations. The organization spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year through its Food for Peace program to distribute surplus crops from American farmers around the globe, according to the Congressional Research Service.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Presumably the farmers got paid for these surplus crops. And if USAID is dismantled, there'll be no-one buying the coming season's surplus. Lots of farmers must be feeling nervous. Shipping and port companies will also be hit.

It's like when firms lay off workers to save money: those people are also customers, who now don't have money for new furniture, restaurant meals, a new car, whatever. There's a ripple effect from "saving money".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Will the food go to hungry Americans, or will it sit there and rot?

My bet is it rots, or rots and is then fed to Americans.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

That's not the American way.

It's dumped before it goes bad. Then they have someone guard the dumping site to make sure it is all wasted.

[–] JDPoZ 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They’ll let it rot, and then they’ll give it to one of their private prisons or holding facilities to feed to their prisoners and save money under the guise of “eliminating waste.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Beware of the “Made in America” sticker. It might be from a ~~concentration camp~~ local vendor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sit and rot, then become a costly cleanup problem,

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obviously the democrats fault. Fucking Bill Clinton.

[–] InternetCitizen2 4 points 1 day ago

Slick Willy doesn't pay for sex.

[–] DrFistington 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For someone who had already served one term as president, he sure as hell doesn't seem to understand how fucking ANYTHING in government works. With any luck he'l be figuring out how a feeding tube works soon

[–] Saprophyte 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He spent almost that entire time playing golf. He has no idea what's going on this time around either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It's his Project 2025 guys intentionally dismantling the government and sabotaging whatever they can. They want a theocracy to "save" us from the very chaos they're creating. It's all going to their plan. Trump is just the useful idiot figurehead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Same guy that was complaining about port inefficiency and backlogs like this under Biden a few months ago?

[–] EmpatheticTeddyBear 4 points 1 day ago

Just divert the trucks to Trump Tower for long term storage!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Caution: fuckups at work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don’t worry, Trump and Elon will eat it in one sitting

[–] glimse 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Nevertheless, they persisted