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Despite announcing a $50 million pledged to fund RUTFs earlier this summer, the Trump administration's deep cuts to foreign assistance have wreaked havoc on RUTF distribution globally, and the State Department hasn’t placed orders with leading suppliers this year. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

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Experts say the disruptions will result in more children dying from hunger. “Stock is running critically low,” Clement Nkubizi, the country director for the nonprofit Action Against Hunger in South Sudan, tells WIRED. “People are going to die.”

9/7/25, 11:51 am27 reposts59 likes

Tommy O'Malley 💙

Trump murders international children as well as children in the United States.

The very existence of RUTFs is a secular miracle. Considered one of the greatest innovations in preventing deaths from hunger since they were invented in the 1990s. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

Since Donald Trump took office in January, foreign aid in the United States has been gutted beyond the point of recognition. On July 1, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officially closed. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

SteffR

@steffr.bsky.social

Add that 14 million to the millions he has/will kill domestically, and hold the mf'er accountable.

While the Trump administration has reinstated its RUTF contracts from 2024 after initially cutting them in March, US-based providers like MANA Nutrition and Edesia are still waiting for new orders from the US government. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/usaid-...