Lawmakers eye $5 billion for global food insecurity amid Ukraine war

The hill ^ | 05/11/2022 | Steven Neukam

[ChicagoConservative27]

Lawmakers are slated to send over $5 billion to combat global food insecurity as part of the nearly $40 billion emergency Ukrainian aid bill passed by the House on Tuesday.

Russian aggression in Ukraine has drastically curtailed food exports from the country, which is the world’s largest producer of wheat and an essential supplier of corn and other grains, sending prices skyrocketing and threatening food insecurity and famine for many already vulnerable parts of the developing world.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Why we all lose everything here at home. 🤬🤬🤬

[Lurker]

Send it where exactly?

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[skimbell]

[mylife]

how about my groceries?

[fhayek]

Why let the free market do its magic when there are lawmakers so willing to royally muck things up?

[liberalh8ter]

Why not a trillion? Oh wait, let’s make it a gazillion!

[MattMusson]

The true problem is the shortage natural gas has led to the shortage of FERTILIZER!

70% of crop inputs are fossil fuel products. Biden and the Greens have engineered the Largest Starvation Event in human history.

[Born in 1950]

1) You can eat govt. cheese.
2) You must eat govt. cheese.
3) Death.

[nascarnation]

[Tench_Coxe]

"Biden announced plans Wednesday to boost production from U.S. farms to help address global food insecurity during a trip to Illinois."

Like what he did with oil from the strategic reserve?
And in the article one Republican is prominently quoted as being onboard. Three guesses who if you haven't read the article.

[dodger]

This serial slush-funding is really gross ...

[Nifster]

Whee is all the baby formula?

[Tench_Coxe]

Apparently, what remains of the US border:

The first photo is from this morning at the Ursula Processing Center at the U.S. border. Shelves and pallets packed with baby formula.

[Arcadian Empire]

Let the peasants at home suffer and die, and instead, send hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign countries.

Americans Last policies are reprehensible.

[Arcadian Empire]

You are correct.

[Nifster]

Disgusting

[liberalh8ter]

Sounds correct.

[TornadoAlley3]

Your babies will drink Pet milk while we feed, arm and house the world.

[Lurker]

I knew it.

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[TigersEye]

“I told Biden, I said, give me another $40 billion or I’ll show the world what you’ve been up to in my country. Well, son of a b*tch...” - Zelensky