Rep Rich McCormick (R-Ga) advisable children that participate in establishment lunch packages “sponge off the government.”
“How many people got their start in fast food restaurants when they were kids?” McCormick told CNN’s Pamela Brown. “Versus just giving a blanket rule that gives all kids lunches in high school, who are capable of going out and actually getting a job and doing something that actually makes them have value.”
McCormick, that talked with CNN on Tuesday from Doral, Florida, was requested if he sustains President Donald Trump’s freeze on all authorities offers, consisting of childhood years most cancers cells analysis research, establishment lunch packages, and Head Start, a authorities financed program that provides preschool for low-income children.
“When you talk about school lunches, hey, I worked my way through high school,” McCormick acknowledged. “I don’t know about you, but I worked before I was even 13 years old. I was picking berries in the field before child labor laws that precluded that.”
When Brown pressed again, he acknowledged “of course” not all children have the power to operate or of functioning age. But he acknowledged the freeze “gives us a chance” to see “where the money is really being spent,” together with that there requires to be a “top-down review” of presidency investing, consisting of establishment lunches.
McCormick likewise rotated on Brown’s issue that Trump has paused federal grants for childhood years most cancers cells analysis research, explaining that Trump proposed a $500 billion project on AI, which might help uncover most cancers cells.