{"id":60593,"date":"2026-02-07T21:13:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=60593"},"modified":"2026-02-07T21:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:13:56","slug":"u-s-lawmaker-calls-for-greater-humanitarian-aid-to-the-sudanese-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/u-s-lawmaker-calls-for-greater-humanitarian-aid-to-the-sudanese-people\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Lawmaker Calls for Greater Humanitarian Aid to the Sudanese People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A senior member of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has criticized the small amount of funding announced by the U.S. President for Sudan, describing it as a \u201cshameful contribution.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Representative Gregory W. Meeks, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement following the \u201cSudan Humanitarian Fund\u201d event held on February 3 at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He noted that while the United Nations estimates humanitarian needs at $6 billion, Donald Trump pledged only $200 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the statement, published on the committee\u2019s website on Friday evening, the congressman said: \u201cThe humanitarian crisis in Sudan is the largest and most urgent in the world, with an estimated 33.7 million people in need of assistance. President Trump himself has called on the international community to do more, yet the United States is offering shamefully little.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The lawmaker also mocked the U.S. pledge of $200 million for Sudan, saying it is \u201croughly half of what Trump spends on his ballroom, and a fraction of what the United States typically provides for a crisis of this magnitude. This is not only inadequate \u2014 it is a moral failure and an abandonment of American leadership.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He further stressed that \u201cthe Trump administration\u2019s cuts to foreign aid have only worsened the humanitarian situation in Sudan,\u201d noting that the United States has the resources, the influence, and the responsibility, and that \u201cthe administration must do more, and urgently.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior member of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has criticized the small amount of funding announced by the U.S. President for Sudan, describing it as a \u201cshameful contribution.\u201d Representative Gregory W. Meeks, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement following the \u201cSudan Humanitarian Fund\u201d event held on February &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60595,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60593\/revisions\/60595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}