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The Republican Study Committeeās annual budget also calls to permanently defund UNRWA and eliminate the National Labor Relations Board.
On Wednesday, theĀ Republican Study Committee, of which some three-quarters of House Republicans are members, released its 2025 budget entitled āFiscal Sanity to Save America.ā Tucked away in the 180-page austerity manifesto is a block of text concerned with a crucial priority for the party: ensuring children arenāt being fed at school.
Eight states offer all students, regardless of household income, free school meals ā and more states are trending in the direction. But while people across the country move to feed school children, congressional Republicans are looking to stop the cause.
The budget āĀ co-signed by more than 170 House Republicans āĀ calls to eliminate āthe Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) from the School Lunch Program.ā The CEP, the Republicans note, āallows certain schools to provide free school lunches regardless of the individual eligibility of each student.ā
āAdditionally,ā the Republicans continue, āthe RSC Budget would limit spending in the program to truly needy households.ā
Iām just going to say it, all kids deserve free lunch. We can give every kid in Yemen a free bomb but we canāt feed our own kids? This place is hell because we stopped simply pulling these people onto the streets and beating them. Its apparent the only thing that keeps the boot out of your mouth is the threat of violence. And even then theyāve created a system where the military police keep them safe and weāre all too busy and poor to do anything else but get to work. I want to do something, too. But if I get arrested my kids go on the street.
If my kid is required by law to be somewhere you better fucking feed them.
That is a really good point. Iām all for free lunches because i know itās something we can do for our people. But youāre on to something that i would like to hear a rebuttal to.
Something like āYouāre free to homeschool your kid.ā Especially because assholes against this love unmonitored homeschooling