Republicans Reveal Dark Plan to Let Kids Go Hungry to Fund Tax Cuts

[Celerity]

Republicans released a list of options for their reconciliation bill.

https://newrepublic.com/post/190399/republicans-plan-cut-medicaid-tax-cuts

https://archive.ph/hatyw


House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington, Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images

Republicans are looking to gut and slash federal programs in order to afford an extension to Donald Trump’s 2017 tax plan. The extension, which overwhelmingly benefits corporations and could add as much as $15 trillion to the national deficit, would arrive at the expense of dozens of popular federal programs.

But perhaps most egregious among the penny-pinching proposals is a plan to literally take food away from hungry children by nixing free school meal plans made available to some of the poorest families in the country. Raising the threshold of eligibility for schools to receive the Community Eligibility Provision could save the government $3 billion over a span of 10 years, according to a menu-like list released by the House Ways and Means Committee intended to serve as cutting options for the House reconciliation package.



“The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows the nation’s highest-poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without collecting household applications,” the proposal reads. “Instead, schools that adopt CEP are reimbursed using a formula based on participation in other specific means-tested programs, such as SNAP and TANF. Currently, schools can qualify if 40 percent of students receive these programs. This proposal would lift that to 60 percent.”

It shouldn’t take much to argue that taking food away from children is a bad thing. But data shows that food insecurity has been on the rise in the U.S. for the last several decades, and it has seen a considerable spike since the pandemic, according to the USDA. It affects roughly one in seven American households, according to data from the Food Research and Action Center, affecting an estimated 47.4 million people across the country.

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[GreenWave]

1. let Big Oil starve. They don't need blue $ funneled by R's who then expect campaign contributions.

[Blue_Tires]

2. Remember folks, well-fed kids is "too woke"

Even when their middle class parents allegedly can't afford groceries 🙄

[SARose]

3. Why do conservatives

believe poverty is due to either laziness or a moral failing?

Every single child in America should receive a free nutritious breakfast, lunch and snack. This isn’t hard people.

For I was hungry and you fed me

Did He stutter?

My bad I forgot nobody makes much money off meals for poor kids. Not like say Tesla, Amazon, Meta and Boeing. Ya know every single one of these companies (and more) is feeding at the gubmint hog trough while kiddos go hungry.

Wonder when they will repeal child labor laws?

[BannonsLiver]

5. What's amazing is many Trump supporters are poor.

Look at places like WVA. They don’t have a lot to piss in.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

6. It's our national Calvinism.

A horrifying perversion of Christianity, IMO.
"If you're rich, it's because God loves you and you are blessed. If you are poor it's because God rejects you, so everyone else should reject you too", roughly stated.

[SARose]

8. Man!

I’m glad I’m a Methodist.😬

[2naSalit]

4. And if all that fails...

They'll outlaw childhood entirely.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

7. The repuke credo...

"If you can't afford lunch for your children, you shouldn't have had children".
It boils down to the standard repuke approach to almost any social problem:
"If you can't _______________, then you shouldn't have ___________________.
But meanwhile, we need to cut taxes for billionaires!