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Meeks, Amo Request USAID, State Inspectors General Investigate and Update on Reports that Trump Administration Wasted Food Assistance
Washington, DC — Representatives Gregory W. Meeks and Gabe Amo, Ranking Member and Vice Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to the USAID and the State Department Acting Inspectors General requesting information on their investigation of wasted food assistance funded by U.S. taxpayers. In the aftermath of the Trump administration’s elimination of USAID, public reporting found that, at the direction of the Trump administration, millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer funded food commodities were either left to spoil or discarded, though the administration has so far failed to provide details on the scale and circumstances of that waste despite Congressional requests to do so.