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Uncertainty surrounds the distribution of US-grown crops supplying foreign food aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars to some of the world’s poorest nations after Elon Musk this week led moves to gut an agency responsible for humanitarian assistance abroad.
Staff at the US Agency for International Development face administrative leave beginning Friday as part of an effort to slash federal spending spearheaded by the White House adviser and world’s richest man. Targeting USAID pushed Republican and Democratic lawmakers to warn that $340 million in shipments of domestic commodities—including soybeans—and ...