Sunday, January 19

Tag: Community Eligibility Provision

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

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

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Republican politicians are seeking to gut and slash federal programs in order to pay for an extension to Donald Trump's 2017 tax strategy.The extension, which extremely benefits corporations and might include as much as $15 trillion to the nationwide deficit, would reach the expenditure of lots of popular federal programs. Possibly most outright amongst the penny-pinching propositions is a strategy to actually take food away from starving kids by nixing complimentary school meal strategies made offered to some of the poorest households in the nation.Raising the limit of eligibility for schools to get the Community Eligibility Provision might conserve the federal government $3 billion over a period of 10 years, according to a menu-like list launched by the House Ways and Means Committee mea...