Michelle Obama’s pet project was destroyed with a single pen stroke.
An unnecessary federal regulation was dropped just in time to surprise the former first lady on her birthday.
Trump gave Michelle Obama a special birthday gift that made her hit the ceiling.
Michelle Obama didn’t follow the path of most first ladies and pick a nice non-controversial issue to promote.
Nancy Reagan promoted Just Say No during her time as first lady, advocating communities to solve their problems by spreading the word about the dangers of drug abuse.
Barbara Bush promoted family literacy and helped found the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, a non-profit organization that helps teach preschool children and their parents to read.
But instead of working through nonprofits to help communities, Michelle Obama decided that more government regulation was a better way to help America.
She decided that she had the right to impose her idea of healthy eating on local school districts.
Childhood obesity is a huge problem in America and there are productive ways that the first lady could have addressed the issue.
But her government regulation policy meant that local districts had added costs and more limited flexibility.
According to the National School Board Association, “School boards cannot ignore the higher costs and operational issues created by the rigid mandates of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.”
That’s why Trump took the bold move to empower parents and local schools by reversing Michelle Obama’s controlling nutritional standards.
The fact that it happened on her birthday was just the icing on the cake, though a USDA spokesperson assured reporters that it was just an accident.
According to the Daily Wire:
The Trump administration moved on Friday to decimate the school nutrition standards pushed by Michelle Obama during her time in the White House, a move that the Department of Agriculture (USDA) took on the former first lady’s birthday.
The USDA said that the new proposals would give “school nutrition professionals … more flexibility to serve appetizing and healthy meals that appeal to their students’ preferences and subsequently reduce food waste. The proposed rule also encourages state and local operators to focus resources on feeding children rather than administrative paperwork.”
“Schools and school districts continue to tell us that there is still too much food waste and that more common-sense flexibility is needed to provide students nutritious and appetizing meals. We listened and now we’re getting to work,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said. “Our proposed changes empower schools to give their very best to our children nationwide and have the potential to benefit nearly 100,000 schools and institutions that feed 30 million children each school day through USDA’s school meal programs. Providing children with wholesome, nutritious food is part of our motto at USDA, which is to ‘do right and feed everyone.’”
Trump understands that more government control isn’t the answer to every problem and that local school districts can serve their children without massive administrative overhead.
Do you think that schoolchildren will eat more healthily and more affordably now that Michelle’s guidelines have been repealed?
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