Summer program to help Montana children with food cut from state budget
A legislative subcommittee voted Friday to cut $20 million of mostly federal money for the biennium out of the state budget for a summer lunch program for children.
Legislators in support of the cut argued the program was duplicative of other resources that feed children, and they feared it would require additional spending on staff at the state health department.
Those who opposed the cut said they didn’t believe the additional spending on staff was needed, and they argued the legislature could approve the funding for food, but turn down a separate budget proposal for 12 new employees.
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