Madam Speaker, as I stand here, our world stands at a
crossroads. As I stand here, 20 million stand at risk of starvation at
the hands of what has the potential to become the worst humanitarian
crisis since World War II: famine in South Sudan and impending famine
in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen. Additional
funding is needed to avert the destabilization of entire regions and to
support refugees fleeing into neighboring countries. Earlier this year, a bipartisan group of Members proposed that the
U.S. allocate $1 billion in emergency funding for famine response. Thanks to those efforts, Congress pledged to provide $990 million in
emergency funding in fiscal year appropriations.
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