Pelosi joins hundreds at anti-poverty rally in California
LOS ANGELES -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined a group of about 200 people at a rally in Los Angeles on Sunday, calling for continued federal funding to help combat poverty in the U.S.
Organizers of the #EndChildPoverty rally, which was held outside of a community center in South Los Angeles, said California has the highest rate of child poverty nationwide. They said they believe that federal funding to help combat the issue is under attack.
Rep. Barbara Lee, a Democrat from California, called it a "moral outrage that in the richest nation on earth, so many of our children are still living in poverty."
"It is wrong, and it is un-American," she said. "Shame on us."
Pelosi urged President Donald Trump not to slash funding that would help impoverished children and families. Pelosi was also joined by Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, Rep. Karen Bass, a Democrat whose district includes parts of Los Angeles, and several other local elected officials. She pointed to Trump's comments about last week's chemical weapons attack that killed men, women and children in Syria.
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