Carlos Gimenez backed massive cuts to food assistance that kicked more than 5.6 million Americans, including over a million children, off SNAP in a single year. Because school lunch funding is tied to SNAP, Miami-Dade was forced to strip universal free meals from nearly 400 schools. Gimenez and his MAGA allies called it stopping waste and fraud, but 5.6 million people losing food benefits isn't fraud, and the families he represents are left struggling to feed their kids at school.
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