BIDI BIDI CAMP, Uganda — As President Donald Trump seeks to cut
foreign aid under the slogan of "America First," two U.S. senators are
proposing making American food assistance more efficient after meeting
with victims of South Sudan's famine and civil war.
Following a visit to the world's largest
refugee settlement in northern Uganda with the Republican chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of
Delaware told The Associated Press on Saturday that the U.S. "can
deliver more food aid at less cost" through foreign food aid reform.
The United States spent roughly $2.8 billon in
foreign food aid last year and is the world's largest provider of
humanitarian assistance. But current regulations require most food aid
to be grown in the U.S. and shipped under an American flag.
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