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Miami-Dade Ended Universal Free Meals at All But 121 of Its 500-Plus Schools. Free Meal Funding Is Tied to SNAP Enrollment, and All Three Republicans Who Represent the County Voted for the SNAP Cuts.

Miami-Dade Ended Universal Free Meals at All But 121 of Its 500-Plus Schools. Free Meal Funding Is Tied to SNAP Enrollment, and All Three Republicans Who Represent the County Voted for the SNAP Cuts.

Schools that feed every student for free qualify for funding tied to rates of SNAP participation. More than 5.6 million people have lost SNAP in a year — faster than the CBO predicted — and Florida's largest school district has already dropped universal free meals at all but 121 of its schools.

Byron Donalds Says the No. 1 Way to Stop Another 9/11 in Florida Is Blocking Sharia Law. Sharia Law Had Nothing to Do With 9/11.

Byron Donalds Says the No. 1 Way to Stop Another 9/11 in Florida Is Blocking Sharia Law. Sharia Law Had Nothing to Do With 9/11.

Days before the 25th anniversary, the Republican nominee for Florida governor told a town hall in The Villages that stopping Sharia law is the top way to prevent another September 11. The 9/11 Commission blamed al Qaeda and four categories of government failure. None of them was a religious legal code, and Sharia law has never been law in an American state.

Byron Donalds Says Florida Can Replace Its Haitian Caregivers With High School Interns and Adult Retraining

Byron Donalds Says Florida Can Replace Its Haitian Caregivers With High School Interns and Adult Retraining

Asked on national television how Florida replaces the Haitian health care workers losing their legal status, the Republican nominee for governor answered with a high school internship program and a promise to supercharge adult education — with no number, no timeline and no cost for either. Nurses and their union say the state is losing trained caregivers it cannot get back.

208 House Republicans Just Voted to Lock In the Food-Safety Layoffs. Complaints About Contaminated Meat Had Risen 40%.

H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.

Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.

Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.

The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.