Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals a 2024 Priority
Prem Thakker
June 15, 2023/10:21 a.m. ET
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As states across the country move to make sure students are well fed, Republicans have announced their intention to fight back.
States across the country are moving to provide universal free school meals to all our children. Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to stop them from doing just that.
The Republican Study Committee (of which some three-quarters of House Republicans are members) on Wednesday released its desired 2024 budget, in which the party boldly declares its priority to eliminate the Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP, from the School Lunch Program. Why? Because CEP allows certain schools to provide free school lunches regardless of the individual eligibility of each student.
https://newrepublic.com/post/173668/republicans-declare-banning-universal-free-school-meals-2024-priority
( This is who they are, plain and simple. )
Lovie777
(14,566 posts)duhneece
(4,226 posts)grumpyduck
(6,636 posts)Alienate those voting teachers.
ProudMNDemocrat
(18,845 posts)Who da thunk it?
2naSalit
(91,888 posts)Providing everyone with every possible reason not to vote for them.
Freethinker65
(11,007 posts)But using public money to feed every student is not.
brush
(57,034 posts)WTF is wrong with the wiring in their cruel brains?
Kids should go hungry?
IbogaProject
(3,490 posts)Universal free school lunch is easier when the school simply feeds everyone. It also leaves money and time in family budgets. Does it help the rich families? But can it put extra money in every community? Hell Yes. These pigs really have nothing to offer but hate and distraction. I almost liked the calculating Bush tyrannies, at least we had to stay on our toes. These new GOP leaders are just pathetic, while still dangerous and scary.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)Every dollar transferred from the poor to the rich helps to Make America Great Again.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(114,266 posts)The whole reason we have a national school lunch program is because back during WWII it was found that many recruits to the armed forces were malnourished. It was for national security reasons it was implemented.
kimbutgar
(23,019 posts)Why feed the poor? Why be my brothers keeper? Why feed the children?
And there are just about if not more the same amount of white children who also eat free lunches.