Haley Stevens: “I rise on behalf of every American child who is going to bed tonight hungry. I rise on behalf of the food insecure child…”

“I rise on behalf of every American child who is going to bed tonight hungry. I rise on behalf of the food insecure child and the meal insecure child. Pandemic-era lunch programs have expired, and that number is now 10 million. That is more than the entire populations of New York City, Washington, D.C., and Detroit combined. I was meeting with the school administrators of Farmington Hills, and they were telling me 40 percent of our children are food insecure. This is impacting Oakland County, Michigan. We have a bill to address this, as we did last term in the Congress, the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act. Let's get this passed. Let's work together. My colleagues are talking about school choice. Let's make sure that when students go to school, they have lunch guaranteed. ____________________”