Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) suggested kids who participate in school lunch programs “sponge off the government.” “How many people got their start in fast food restaurants when they were kids?” McCormick told CNN’s Pamela Brown.

Ga., on Tuesday defended the impacts of the White House's federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving free lunch.

A Republican representative thinks students shouldn’t rely on free school meals but instead work for them. Georgia Rep. Rich McCormick said President Donald Trump’s surprise order to freeze federal funding for grants and loans was an opportunity to conduct a “top-down” review of spending,

Republican Rep. Ritch McCormick (R-Ga.) suggested that students should get jobs to pay for their lunches as the federal funding freeze proposed by President Trump threatens nutrition support for children across the country.