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Towards the end of the bidet government, the US Authority for International Development (USA) spent around $ 800,000 for high-energy cookies, according to a report by the “Atlantic”. These should help people who are affected by natural disasters or flee from war. After the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the food for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan reported in a warehouse in Dubai. Because Trump and the former Doge boss Elon Musk dismantled large parts of the federal authorities. Including the Office for Foreign Aid.
1.5 million children could be taken care of
In the past, long -standing employees could have handed the cookies to the world nutrition program, according to the magazine. However, employees explained that Musk’s so -called Doge USAID had weakened so much that relief supplies could not be moved without approval of the new political management. Thousands of employees were released or on leave. The responsibility was initially with Trump-called Pete Marocco, but was then passed on to Jeremy Lewin, the deputy administrator for politics and programs of the remaining USAID structure. (Rolling Stone had previously reported alleged violent past and racist remarks about Lewin’s.) Employees who applied for approvals to release the emergency rates did not state that they had never received an answer. It is unclear whether Marocco or Lewin have ever seen memos.
Now, according to the “Atlantic”, enough food should be fed for about 1.5 million children for a week. run today. A total of almost 500 metric tons of emergency food. Despite Foreign Minister Marco Rubio’s assurance to representatives of the Household Committee of the House of Representatives in May that food aid will achieve the intended recipients, the Trump government is reportedly planning to issue $ 130,000. To burn the cookies instead of sending them to needy children.
While improper storage, floods or terrorist groups could be lost a few dozen tons of food aid annually, a USAI employee said that he had never experienced so many wasted cookies in all of his years of service.
Tons of food blocked
According to the United States, more than 60,000 metric tons of the US government bought food in warehouses around the world in January. Among them £ 36,000 pounds, oil and grain. A former senior civil servant of the USAID office for humanitarian aid told the “Atlantic” that only a small part of the food had been transported on at the beginning of July. A current employee reported that small deliveries had now left a warehouse in Dschibuti. However, due to the massive cuts in the USAid and the lack of important coordinators for transport and distribution, it is unclear whether the aid packages will ever reach their destinations.