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Reject universal free school meals

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 10, p. 303. Written by Daren Bakst.

Reject universal free school meals

The document says “should”Who acts: USDAHow: internal managementp. 303 in the PDF
What the document says

“any efforts to expand student eligibility for federal school meals to include all K–12 students should be soundly rejected”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 303

The chapter says such expansion would allow what it calls an inefficient, wasteful program to grow, and asks that the school lunch and breakfast programs be restored to their original goal of feeding children who would otherwise have no food at school.

What the document actually says

“any efforts to expand student eligibility for federal school meals to include all K–12 students should be soundly rejected”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 303
That sentence, in plain words

Some want free school meals for every child. The book says that should be turned down flat.

What this is about

Some people want free meals for all pupils. The book says no. It says meals should go only to children who need them.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The nearest candidate changes which milk schools may serve, not who may be served. Nothing indexed expands federal school meals to all K-12 pupils, and nothing rejects such an expansion. This proposal asks that a future step be refused, so an absence of action is not by itself evidence either way. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 303.
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    “Reject universal free school meals,” Project 2025, chapter 10, p. 303. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch10-reject-universal-school-meals/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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