Republican Congressman Rich McCormick proposed in an interview that free school lunches be removed from schools and children be sent to work for low wages. Bans on child labor were hard-fought battles of the American labor movement.

Georgia Rep. Rich McCormick says children can "have value" by working for their school lunches, as he did, before child labor laws.

You’re telling me that kids who stay at home instead of going to work at Burger King or McDonald’s during the summer should stay at home and get their free lunch instead of going to work?’ Congressman

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,

McCormick also pivoted on Brown’s point that Trump has paused federal grants for childhood cancer research, pointing out that Trump proposed a $500 billion project on AI, which could help detect cancer.

Georgia Rep. Rich McCormick suggested during a CNN interview that kids get jobs, including at fast food restaurants, to pay for school lunches.

GOP Representative Rich McCormick suggested that free lunch allows schoolchildren to "sponge off the government."

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.