The Republican Study Committeeā€™s 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 ā€œFiscal 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 arenā€™t 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 ā€”Ā co-signed by more than 170 House Republicans ā€”Ā calls to eliminate ā€œthe Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) from the School Lunch Program.ā€ The CEP, the Republicans note, ā€œallows certain schools to provide free school lunches regardless of the individual eligibility of each student.ā€

ā€œAdditionally,ā€ the Republicans continue, ā€œthe RSC Budget would limit spending in the program to truly needy households.ā€

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    Republicans are radicalizing the population and itā€™s exactly what Putin wants

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      Kinda unrelated but holy balls did you see that Tucker Carlson crap in Russia? The interview and the several videos after thatā€¦ It is the most blatant ridiculous propaganda Iā€™ve seen in a long time and itā€™s strange. That combined with the crazy amount of Russian bots on those videos puts you in such a weird weird environment itā€™s crazy

      He even says

      ā€œComing to a Russian grocery store, the ā€˜heart of evil,ā€™ and seeing what things cost and how they live, it will radicalize you against our leaders. Thatā€™s how I feel, anyway, radicalized.ā€

      Lmao usually they try to be just a smidge more sneaky with the propaganda

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        Kinda unrelated but holy balls did you see that Tucker Carlson crap in Russia?

        Putin made fun of Carlson afterward for asking such weak questions. I mean, Iā€™d serve up softballs too if the alternative came with a risk of unexpected acute polonium exposure, but itā€™s still humiliating for Carlson.

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        I did see that. It was crazy.

        I think Putin has the goods (kompromat) on Tucker, Elon, Dershowitz, Trump, and most of the Congressional Republicans. Probably all were avid frequenters of Epstein island.

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          I think itā€™s less blackmail and more just knowing what buttons to push. Tucker needs attention, heā€™s that kid saying ā€œlook at what I can doā€ but grown up and completely lacking ethics. If you offer him a platform and reach heā€™ll agree to anything.

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            Remember Matt Gaetz attempting to blackmail him in an extremely awkward interview, which Tucker subsequently changed the subject on and ended the interview?

            I bet heā€™s a freak and Putin has the goods.