Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., suggested that students who receive free lunches at school should get jobs to pay for them as a sweeping freeze on federal grants and loans ordered by President Donald Trump threatens to impact access to nutrition support at schools nationwide.

During an interview on Tuesday, CNN’s Pamela Brown asked McCormick about the potential repercussions of the funding freeze and how it would affect the school lunch and Head Start programs in particular.

“Before I was even 13-years old, I was picking berries in the field, before child labor laws that precluded that. I was a paperboy and when I was in high school; I worked my entire way through,” McCormick replied.

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