Chef José Andrés, who recently traveled to Puerto Rico to help provide meals in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, is setting up another kitchen in D.C., this time for unpaid federal workers.
Big news! We will open a kitchen on Pennsylvania Ave this week to join private sector effort to feed federal employees during the shutdown. It’s only fair to feed Americans in need! #ChefsForFeds ????? Follow @WCKitchen for more details! pic.twitter.com/PRBtlaNug6
— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) January 14, 2019
Are these meals a benefit in kind? Will Chef José Andrés have to 1099 the people he feeds? Andrés has a fraught history with Trump, he should be careful.
This is the kind of country we are now.
In part. But José Andrés represents another part.
I love this guy. Foremost for helping people who desperately need it during a crisis. But also for continually showing Trump for the Sadist that he is (lack of concern/effort/bordering on cruelty in Puerto Rico, and now in D.C.) But because he is doing so much good - while Trump is doing nothing - it is hard for Trump to go on the attack. (Or perhaps that was part of the settlement of the lawsuit?)
Immigrant offers to feed public servants who cannot pay for food because the government is shut down over a fight to keep immigrants out. That should be the lede.