Hasnain says:

I find it really crazy that child poverty was cut in half - half! - last year and that wasn’t heralded as both a massive indictment of how things were done in the past and a great achievement by the public. And now it’s so infuriating to see that the public and lawmakers are okay with millions of children going hungry again.

“Shame on Pat Toomey! Shame on Joe Manchin! And shame on the broader system that sees 3.7 million kids slip sliding needlessly into poverty as business as usual, and not as the biggest scandal in America right now, which it is. Even Biden — whose administration deserves credit for devising the scheme and getting the temporary version passed last year — seems to have moved on. With lobbying for Build Back Better on life support, Team Biden is busy drafting the largest Pentagon budget in American history, expected to target $800 billion or more for new tanks and stealth fighter jets, the only “need” that both Democrats and Republicans support without question.”

Posted on 2022-02-21T00:07:31+0000