The Needle: U.S. Kids Are Food Insecure, Joyce Beatty Challenges Kennedy Center Tarp, Trump Spends $527K in Taxpayer Funds on a Slave Owner Statue Base, Bezos Hates WaPo People, and the Reflecting Pool Drama Continues

The Needle: U.S. Kids Are Food Insecure, Joyce Beatty Challenges Kennedy Center Tarp, Trump Spends $527K in Taxpayer Funds on a Slave Owner Statue Base, Bezos Hates WaPo People, and the Reflecting Pool Drama Continues

The hunger: While convicted felon and President Donald Trump spends our tax dollars on everything pointless and ugly, some kids are going hungry. The One Big Ugly Bill took more than $1 trillion from safety net programs to offset tax cuts for the uber-rich. SNAP use has fallen by 4.7 million, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Despite GOP promises that children would not be harmed, they are going hungry. In the 12 …