We turn now to the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program, Cindy McCain, who joins us from Rome.

Welcome back to Face the Nation.

Thank you.

Well, Executive Director, you have so much work on your plate given the data shows a record high number of people seeking urgent food and livelihood assistance.

We're just five months into 2026. What's the trajectory we're on?

Right now it's not very good, clearly, because of the large amount of people, number one, that are food insecure, our ability to feed and feed at scale is not too good.

Because we right this year have only received half of the money that we need to be able to feed the amount of people we are looking at right now.

Half of the money you need. Is that because of the U.S. cuts or a global

pullback in helping feed the Hungary? It's both. It's U.S. and the global pullback. It's

not one country by any stretch, but it's collectively everybody. How do you explain that?

Some of the countries have begun looking internally and their constituents are asking for

less money for foreign aid and more money for domestic uses.

And I certainly understand that, but with what we have looked at and what we are looking at now with

regards to not just hunger, but we're looking at several more famines, by the way.

So that would be, we've already had two, which is unprecedented.

We had two more, you see what we've got.

So we really need countries and private sector as well as not just private sector, but also

corporations, et cetera, to step up.

And to some degree they are.

We've had a great deal more involvement with our private sector and our corporations, but

we have, it's going to collectively take all of us to be able to fix this.

I want to come back to this in the moment, but let's talk about where the need is right now.

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