WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee and Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development announced that they are moving forward with $1 billion in Commodity Credit Corporation funding to purchase U.S.-grown commodities to provide emergency international food assistance:
“I am grateful that the process has started for the $1 billion purchase of U.S.-grown commodities using CCC funds, and I am hopeful that these commodities will very soon start moving toward the millions of people around the world on the brink of starvation. Given the scale of the global hunger crisis, I urge USDA to utilize additional CCC funds this year to purchase and ship nutritious U.S. commodities to areas around the globe where people are in desperate need of food.”