On Tuesday, Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.), suggested that kids who benefit from federally funded free lunch programs, like Head Start, should consider getting jobs to pay for their own lunches.The comments were made during an interview with CNNs Pamela Brown, after the congressman was asked about Trumps order to pause federal grants, loans, and other assistance programs, while the administration reviews how the funds are being allocated. Who can actually go and actually produce their own income? Who can actually go out there and do something that makes them have value and work skills for the future? McCormick said. Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field before (the) child labor laws that precluded that. I was a paperboy, and when I was in high school, I worked my entire way through.The congressman continued. Youre telling me that kids who stay at home instead of going to work at Burger King (and) McDonalds during the summer should stay at home and get their free lunch instead of going to work? I think we need to have a top-down review. Brown pushed back, urging McCormick to acknowledge that many of the children who receive free school lunches are elementary schoolers, and therefore well below legal working age.The terms of Trumps executive order were laid out in an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo from Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget. It explained that federal funds should be dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending wokeness and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and Making America Healthy Again.After releasing the memo, OMB sent a document to around 2,600 agencies that receive federal funds, including school meals for low-income students, U.S. Agency for International Development foreign assistance, the WIC nutrition program for pregnant women and infants, a reintegration program for homeless veterans, and others, asking for explanations on what exactly the programs do.In her first White House press briefing on Tuesday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to quell worries by insisting the freeze was only a temporary pause to make sure these organizations receiving funds dont conflict with the new administrations policies. Leavitt also said that she would provide a list of the organizations affected and emphasized that eliminating funding to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs (DEI), or other woke programs are a priority of the administration.Head Start, which provides pre-school funding for low-income children, told CBS that the freeze has the potential to severely disrupt the ability for Head Start programs to serve nearly 800,000 children and their families nationwide. Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that students eligible for free or reduced price school meals cannot legally be charged processing fees starting in 2027.Trumps executive order was later temporarily blocked by U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan until Feb. 3, after a lawsuit brought by the National Council of Nonprofits, the American Public Health Association, the Main Street Alliance and SAGE advocates for LGBTQ+ told the court the impacts of the freeze would be catastrophic.At least six other attorneys have filed similar suits. At a news conference Tuesday, Letitia James, New York Attorney General called out Trumps executive order, saying, This policy is reckless, dangerous, illegal and unconstitutional.