Cuts to school meals opposed

Statement

According to the Trump administration's own Department of Agriculture, its proposed changes in eligibility standards will lead to 982,000 children losing their school meals. So, I joined 27 of my colleagues on the Education and Labor Committee in opposing the proposal. USDA has been forced to reopen the comment period because the Department initially failed to disclose the true number of children impacted, if they were not automatically eligible for school meals because their family gets food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). That hurts not just the SNAP students. It can mean no meals for anyone, if the total number participating at a school falls below 40 percent. It is true the Marianas does not participate in SNAP, but I believe it is important to support students everywhere in America and cannot allow this proposal to go unchallenged.

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