Every time the media makes an argument for USAID, the argument ends up turning against USAID.

USAID advocates argued that we must keep plowing money into foreign aid because the agency used to buy only 41% of its food from U.S. farmers and what will they possibly do with the wheat unless we ship it to Somalia?

The current fallback position is that USAID has $489 million worth of food sitting in warehouses and it’ll spoil unless we ship it to Somalia.

Almost $500 million in food aid is at risk of spoilage as it sits in ports, ships and warehouses after funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, was paused by the Trump administration, according to a Feb. 10 report from a government watchdog.

While the future of USAID’s funding and its purchases from U.S. farmers remains unclear, there is currently $489 million worth of food sitting “at ports, in transit, and in warehouses at risk of spoilage, unanticipated storage needs, and diversion,” the Feb. 10 USAID inspector general report said.

An additional 500,000 additional metric tons of food is currently on ships or ready to be shipped abroad, the report added. USAID typically buys commodities such as wheat, soybeans, sorghum and split peas from U.S. farmers.

“When the food doesn’t get to where it needs to go, it winds up in a landfill, and that has devastating effects,” Ashley Stanley, the CEO of Spoonfuls, which redirects excess food from grocers and other companies to aid organizations in Massachusetts, told CBS Boston.

What if the food goes to Americans instead of Somalis, Gazans and other Islamic terrorists?

I imagine putting commodities back on the market will help lower food prices in America. But USAID and its allies would rather put the food in a landfill than give it to Americans.