We Paid $800.000 For The Food Then $100.000 To Burn It
Sam Carter 2.18K subscribers 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 manag...
