On Tuesday, Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.), suggested that kids who benefit from federally funded free lunch programs, like Head Start, should consider getting jobs to pay for their own lunches. 

The comments were made during an interview with CNN’s Pamela Brown, after the congressman was asked about Trump’s order to pause federal grants, loans, and other assistance programs, while the administration reviews how the funds are being allocated. “Who can actually go and actually produce their own income? Who can actually go out there and do something that makes them have value and work skills for the future?” McCormick asked rhetorically. “Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field before [the] child labor laws that precluded that. I was a paperboy, and when I was in high school, I worked my entire way through.”

The congressman continued: “You’re telling me that kids who stay at home instead of going to work at Burger........

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