'My kids deserve to eat': Wisconsin officials fail to get food aid to thousands of poor children bit.ly/321kLla
Wisconsin has failed to send food assistance to tens of thousands of poor children who are supposed to be getting extra help because they have been learning at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Under a federal program created last spring, the families of students who qualify for subsidized meals in Wisconsin schools are supposed to receive $6.82 to cover food for every day their children are not in school buildings and are instead learning virtually.
Tens of thousands of students haven't gotten their benefits because the Department of Public Instruction didn't collect the addresses of all students. It also has not determined whether 500 schools are holding classes virtually—even though the state promised to do so months ago.
Sherrie Tussler of Milwaukee's @hungertaskforce said she was frustrated state officials hadn't done more in recent months to make sure they got the aid to as many families as quickly as possible.
"Why did we wake up one day and realize we didn't have addresses?" she asked.
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.@RepGrothman initially told me he was unworried about the storming of the Capitol but later noted his office does not overlook the Capitol and said he was appalled by what's going on.
“It’s an embarrassment to our republic that people would behave this way,” he said.
He said @realDonaldTrump should intervene by speaking to the country on television.
“I think President Trump should be exerting more leadership,” he said. “I strongly believe he should get on TV and address the crowd.”
Grothmann criticized Trump and others for suggesting his supporters could get Congress to change the results of the election.
“I have been critical of expectations being raised by people including the president as to what will happen today,” he said.
Evers says he will extend mask mandate, veto stricter rules for absentee voting, decide later whether to run again jsonline.com/story/news/pol… —via @MollyBeck
.@GovEvers hasn't decided whether he will seek a second term in 2022 but also doesn't want his lieutenant governor, @TheOtherMandela, to run for U.S. Senate that year.
.@GovEvers said he may try to legalize recreational marijuana next year to raise money for the state.
He would be sure of facing stiff resistance from Republicans who control the Legislature if he did that.
.@judgekarofsky comes out swinging in arguments over lawsuit Trump brought over the election in Wisconsin's two most populous counties.
"This lawsuit, Mr. Troupis, smacks of racism," Karofsky tells Trump attorney Jim Troupis.
.@justicedallet notes Trump is challenging an election form that has been in use for more than a decade. That form was used when Trump won the state in 2016.
"What I’m hearing you say then is really the form was fine in 2016 when it helped the president to win," Dallet says.
At the outset of a trial in one of Trump's lawsuits, Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek says he will not allow anyone to intervene or file friend-of-the-court briefs.
Meanwhile, Trump's allies in the state Legislature will hold a hearing today over how the election was conducted. Some background on that hearing is here: jsonline.com/story/news/pol…
Thursday could prove crucial in Trump's elections lawsuits in Wisconsin bit.ly/2JVklYd
Today's hearing is going slowly.
After 30 minutes of technical troubles and a discussion of how to handle witnesses, the court is taking a 20-minute break.
After the break, U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig will likely decide how much testimony to allow.
After a two-hour break, the court is back.
Judge Brett Ludwig tells the attorneys that handing over the state's electoral votes to state lawmakers would likely be the most remarkable ruling in the history of the judiciary.