The United States government funds the distribution of tens of millions of donuts and sugary pastries to children for breakfast every day.
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The Joe Rogan ExperienceNov 6, 2026
The sources confirm that the federal School Breakfast Program funds free and reduced-price school breakfasts, serving about 2.5 billion breakfasts in FY2024 (roughly 14 million per school day, which is below the 'tens of millions' figure).
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… And this isn't everything I wanted, but, you know, it it's it's we don't require protein at breakfast. Do you know what the number one breakfast in for school children is in America? What? Donuts and sugary pastries. We have tens of millions of donuts and sugary pastries going government funded to kids every day, destroying their metabolic health. It's inexcusable, and there's no protein requirement. So we said you can't have sugary desserts for breakfast, and we're going to put a protein requirement breakfast, so maybe people can have some eggs. You know, there we raise protein a little bit. …
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Supports. The USDA's School Breakfast Program provides free or low-cost breakfasts to children and reimburses schools for meals served, with more than 2.5 billion breakfasts served in FY2024 at a total cost of $5.7 billion.[1]
Context. The breakfast program serves roughly 14 million meals per school day on average, which is short of the 'tens of millions' of daily breakfasts the claim implies, though the claim is specifically about donuts and pastries.[1]
Context. No source addresses the composition of school breakfast menus, so none confirms or refutes that donuts and sugary pastries are the most common school breakfast or that tens of millions of them are funded daily.[1][2][3]
Sources
3 sources: 2 primary, 1 not rated
- 1Child Nutrition Programs - School Breakfast Programers.usda.gov · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 2School Lunch and Breakfast Participation: A Snapshot of ...congress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Main navigationfoodcommunitybenefit.noharm.org · not rated · cited for: context
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