U.S. Sen. during an education town hall in Harrisburg on Saturday. J.D. Vance (Ohio), the Republican Party’s vice presidential candidate, said his politics were based on his Christian faith.
“Christian politics should focus on the common good, regardless of whether you are a Bible-believing Christian or not,” he said. “You should strive for a society where people can lead good lives, where they can raise their children with good values, and where, if they work hard, they can earn enough to support their family.”
Vance said he was first baptized in 2019.
The town hall was hosted by an organization affiliated with Black Pastors United for Education Jeffrey Yass.
Yass is a major donor to the Republican Party, making almost donations $85 million mostly republican causes this cycle, agree Open the secrets. He also tried to become a champion school choice and vouchers.
Still, Vance took the time to criticize politicians who receive money from gigantic donors.
“You know what interest group politics looks like in Pennsylvania or in any of our states, if you have 10 people who don’t have a strong political voice and they’re pushing for one thing, but you also have one guy who has a really powerful and combined push for something else.” – he said. “Unfortunately, very often he is the only guy who gets politicians’ ears. This is what people listen to.”
Vance said education bureaucracy makes it complex for students to access novel educational materials, which is one of the reasons he is a fan of school choice.
“We have a lot of schools that are really underfunded and don’t have the resources they need or for some complicated reason they don’t give kids a good education,” he said. “I believe that one way to solve this problem is to award scholarships. “it’s about giving vouchers to every single parent, every grandparent who cares for a child, so they can choose the education that makes the most sense for their families.”
In Pennsylvania, school vouchers are a controversial topic; Republicans praise them, saying they give parents more freedom, while most Democrats say they take money away from public schools.
Public schools in Pennsylvania can vary greatly in quality because they are largely funded by local taxes.
Pastor Joshua Robertson of The Rock Church in Harrisburg asked Vance if he thought school choice could coincide with improving public schools.
“The evidence I have seen suggests that school choice actually improves the quality of both private and public schools,” he said.
Vance, however, said feeding children is one of the most beneficial things for schools.
““I think if you want to have successful public and private schools, one of the most crucial things is that children can’t learn if their stomachs are empty,” he said.
He then claimed that the Biden administration is threatening schools that do not allow transgender people to play sports by withholding funding for National school lunch programwhich falls under the Food and Nutrition Service.
“I think it’s crazy to allow biological men to compete in sports with biological women,” he said. “But even if you don’t agree with me, I think it’s terrible to take food out of poor children’s mouths because they’re not doing what the Biden Harris administration wants them to do.”
The administration tried raise Title IX prohibiting discrimination based on sex to “gender stereotypes, gender characteristics (including intersex characteristics), pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions, sexual orientation and gender identity.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has not stated that it will cut funding for the school lunch program, but rather stated that “program operators and sponsors who receive funding from FNS [Food and Nutrition Service] must investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.”
This extension is on hold after multiple releases federal lawsuits filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of Education.
In his own announcementBlack Pastors United for Education says Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democratic vice presidential candidate and former public school teacher, and Green Party vice presidential candidate Buck Ware were invited to the town hall, but only candidate Vance and Libertarian Mike ter Maat showed up.
In a statement, Harris campaign spokesman Onotse Omoyeni criticized Trump and Vance for calling for eliminating the Department of Education in Project 2025.
Although both GOP candidates have tried to distance themselves from Project 2025, Vance wrote the attacker for the book written by her overseer.
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