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Jul 14, 2026
In May 2025, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) told Secretary of State Marco Rubio that
500 tons of emergency food — high-energy biscuits bought with American tax
dollars — were sitting in a warehouse in Dubai, set to expire in July. Bought.
Shipped. Stored. And condemned to waste.
Rubio's response: "I disagree with like 99% of it. It's just not true. We've done
nothing that's illegal."
Two months later, the biscuits were incinerated.
Here are the confirmed numbers. 496 metric tons — roughly $800,000 worth — expired
in that Dubai warehouse and were destroyed. The State Department confirmed it. The
food was meant for starving children in Afghanistan and Pakistan; it would have fed
approximately 1.5 million children for a week. Burning it cost the American taxpayer
roughly another $100,000 on top of what had already been spent.
And here's the part that's hardest to get past: in June, aid officials managed to
save 622 tons of the very same biscuits and shipped them to Syria, Bangladesh, and
Myanmar. So it could be done. It just wasn't done for these.
Rubio also told Congress there were "no State Department delays" in getting food aid
out. The Washington Post's Fact Checker later awarded him four Pinocchios over a
related claim about USAID cuts.
Now — I'm not going to tell you Murray was right about everything, because she
wasn't, and I'd rather be straight with you.
On the legal question, it's messier than her speech suggested. She was right that in
March 2025 the Supreme Court forced the administration to pay for work already
completed. But in September 2025, the Supreme Court went the other way and allowed
the administration to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid. Justice Kagan wrote a
scathing dissent calling it a presidential usurpation of Congress's power — but the
majority sided with the administration. So "outright illegal"? That was not the
courts' final word.
The State Department's defense on the food is also on the record: they say the
expired lot was over-purchased under the previous administration, and that USAID has
had to destroy expired commodities before, under other presidents. Weigh that for
yourself.
But you can argue about the Impoundment Control Act all day. You can't argue with an
incinerator.
That's why this channel goes back and checks. Anybody can win an argument in a
hearing room. The receipts show up later.
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Source footage: U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing (public domain).
Facts on the destroyed food aid as reported by CNN, Reuters, The Atlantic, and Al
Jazeera, and confirmed by the U.S. State Department. Supreme Court rulings via
SCOTUSblog and NBC News. This video is commentary for educational purposes.
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