
Scarlett Johansson Fights To Save Free School Lunches, Which She ‘Relied’ On As A Kid
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“I can only imagine the relief my parents felt, knowing my siblings and I had access to meals at school,” the “Jurassic World Rebirth” star said.
Black Widow isn’t afraid of a fight.
Scarlett Johansson has signed an open letter that calls on Congress to reject cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid in President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill.
“Ongoing high grocery costs mean food is out of reach for so many families, and many of our neighbors simply do not have enough to eat,” the open letter written by Feeding America reads. “They don’t know where their next meal is coming from or if that meal will be enough to nourish and sustain them.”
The letter notes that “an estimated 15.5 million children and 7.2 million seniors rely on programs” like SNAP and Medicaid merely “to make ends meet.”
“Congress is now considering a bill that would make some of the largest cuts to SNAP and Medicaid in U.S. history — taking 9.5 billions of meals a year through SNAP off the table and pushing hundreds of thousands of people off Medicaid and into food insecurity,” the letter reads. “This is unacceptable and wrong. It is not how people in this country treat each other when facing hard times.”













