The Republican Study Committeeā€™s annual budget also calls to permanently defund UNRWA and eliminate the National Labor Relations Board.

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€

      • 0x2d@lemmy.ml
        1Ā·
        9 months ago

        at my school some kids would purchase large amounts of cookies and such using the lunch money provided by their parents

        then they would sell these foods in order to get money

        • Furedadmins@lemmy.world
          1Ā·
          9 months ago

          How would buying cookies then reselling them get them any more? If there was markup the kids would just buy from the school directly.

          • experbia@lemmy.world
            2Ā·
            9 months ago

            I had kids that would do this at my school too. theyā€™d sell them at a loss, technically - see, it was their parents money paying for it, but they would get paid cash by kids for discounted food items. it was essentially a way to launder the money your parent gave the school for your lunches into usable money, with a little bit of a loss yes, but at a big gain in versatility - for any kid, cash in hand is way better than dollar values in a school lunch system.

            but Iā€™d much rather have this ā€œfraudā€ (of the kidsā€™ parents maybe lol) than kids go hungry.

            and this has nothing to do with the free school lunches either. those were always fixed meals given to you - not ā€œlunch money dollarsā€ you could choose to use as you see fit. so this is just a bunch of greedy old assholes wanting to starve some kids.