JD Vance criticizes Biden-Harris school lunch policy for excluding schools that oppose trans participation in sports

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Saturday called out President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for holding free school lunches hostage. Refusal to release federal funds Transgender students were opposed in girls’ sports in schools.

Vance said, “I think it’s crazy to allow biological males to compete in sports with biological females.”

“But even if you disagree with me, I think it’s a terrible thing to take food out of the mouths of poor kids because they don’t do what the Biden-Harris administration wants them to do,” he added.

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Vance made the comments during a moderated town hall discussion at the Rock Church in Harrisburg with senior pastor Joshua C. Robertson.

Robertson – who wrote Wall Street Journal article Calling school choice “the civil rights issue of our time” – much of Saturday’s conversation focused on related policies school choice issues,

A strong supporter of school choice himself, Vance often referred to his dysfunctional upbringing in Appalachia while praising private vouchers as an engine to spur progress in America’s failing urban public districts.

“What I’ve seen is that when parents and grandparents get more school choice, it actually improves not only private schools,” Vance said.

“Because when public schools realize that they don’t have a monopoly or control over the lives of these young people, they have to step up. They have to do a better job.”

In form of The first person in his family to earn a bachelor’s degreeVance described education as a means not only to upward mobility but also to longer life.

He claimed that, on average, those who do not have a bachelor’s degree die seven years earlier than their more educated counterparts.

“When you talk about the fact that if you don’t go to college, you die seven years earlier…it’s a real divide. It’s a real problem,” Vance said.