Brooke Rollins said the Agriculture Department ran nearly 1,000 simulations and identified a $3 meal composed of chicken, broccoli, a corn tortilla, and one other item. Public ridicule followed, and Rollins clarified that she meant larger portions—a big piece of chicken, a full head of broccoli, a baked potato, and bread—and called her earlier wording unfortunate. The department produced updated figures estimating three meals plus a snack at about $15.64 per day. Rollins said she cringed at criticism, suggested opponents were politically motivated, and framed the effort as aimed at improving national health.
""I regret that I didn't make it sound like a more robust plate because that is what I mean to make it sound like," she told reporters outside the White House. "A really big piece of chicken," she explained, is what she meant last week. "And when I said a piece of broccoli, I meant like big...I'm a mom of four, and I cook broccoli a lot. For me, that's a big head of broccoli, a baked potato, etc., a couple pieces of bread.""
""Part of me cringed about the criticism that I got because it wasn't what I meant," she continued, adding that she didn't mean to be "flippant." "But I also think that the left-or those that were attacking me-perhaps know that this is an issue that 90% of Americans agree on, it is one that no one's really done anything about until this administration.""
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