State Department says life-saving wheat headed for Yemen won’t go to waste and US may redirect ship after CNN reporting

State Department says life-saving wheat headed for Yemen won’t go to waste and US may redirect ship after CNN reporting

The State Department said Thursday that the life-saving wheat aboard a carrier ship sailing toward southern Yemen will not go to waste, as it responded to CNN’s reporting that the Trump administration’s recent cuts to humanitarian funding could result in the wheat rotting or being pillaged once it arrived at the port of Aden.