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World hunger. What's America's role?

Hello again, I'm Aron Alney, and this is To the Point.

70 million people are food insecure.

Famine has been declared already in one country and predicted

in three more in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The UN set a deadline for tomorrow,

$4.4 billion for food and water, but less than a tenth has been received despite drought,

disease, and warfare. The U.S. has led the world in past disaster relief,

but President Trump wants massive cuts, and his aides are asking why America should care.

Meantime, the world faces what could be one of the biggest humanitarian crises since World War II.

On our talking point later, the House investigation of Russian meddling

has collapsed into partisanship.

Can the Senate do any better?

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Hello again, we're not only back with To The Point in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

There's an acute shortage of food and clean water.

But the UN has received just a fraction of the money needed for relief or prevention of famine.

Will the Trump administration push for budget cuts rather than making donations?

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