Bipartisan effort builds to restore USAID funding to fight malnutrition abroad

Bipartisan effort builds to restore USAID funding to fight malnutrition abroad


EXCLUSIVE — Groups that feed malnourished children abroad with edible paste are asking a divided Congress to make their program a bipartisan priority after freezes in funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development threaten their existence.

Two U.S.-based companies that manufacture the nutrient-dense paste, MANA Nutrition and Edesia Nutrition, and a non-profit supporting them, the Eleanor Crook Foundation, are imploring both House lawmakers and the Trump administration to reinstate funding for ready-to-use therapeutic food, or RUTF, as the Department of Government Efficiency reviews their contracts to produce and send food to foreign countries for children at risk of starvation.

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Freezes from USAID have manufacturers like MANA stuck in limbo, as they stare down the

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