California is asking the Trump administration for permission to use federal funding to provide meals to students outside of school hours, as families continue to reel amid the federal government’s cuts to food stamps.

On Monday, the California Department of Education urged the Trump administration to allow flexibility to the school meal program and issue federal waivers that would enable school districts to provide to-go meals to students over weekends and holidays — similar to what the federal government did during the coronavirus pandemic.

“We continue to call on the Trump administration to provide these waivers immediately,” State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said Monday. “Americans are struggling and they’re suffering and they’re hungry. Politics should not play

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