Angelina Jolie pleads for Congress to increase food assistance benefits because 'children are going hungry'

Fox News ^ | May 5, 2020 | Tyler McCarthy

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Angelina Jolie is calling on Congress to increase food assistance to families across the United States in the next coronavirus stimulus bill.

The Academy Award-winning actress and humanitarian is advocating on behalf of the millions of families across the country who rely on things like free meals for their kids at schools that are no longer available as people lose work and classrooms remain empty due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer shared with USA Today, the 44-year-old celebrity asks for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to have its benefits increased for parents in an effort to ensure that fewer kids go to bed hungry due to the unprecedented pandemic.

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Angelina Jolie is calling on Congress to increase food assistance to families across the United States

I am calling on All Persons working in the Entertainment Industry to give 10% of their Income to these needy children. Hell you can bring them into your homes and adopt them too.

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Hell you can bring them into your homes and adopt them too.

Angelina Jolie did that more than a few times.

[Brown Deer]

Seriously? Obviously, she's completely ignorant to the fact that they have already been giving bonus allotments to people for the past two months!