Oh, sure - let the Feds define poverty levels and they can justify stealing just as much of our money at the point of a gun (ie “taxing” us) as they want.
To have traveled much in this country and elsewhere is to know that there is essentially no true poverty here in the US at all, except the poverty of spirit that the government has purposefully fostered under the rubric of “The Great Society.”
I’ll bet most of those children live in a households with several televisions, computers, microwaves, running water, refrigeration, air conditioning, dishwashers, video game consoles, automobiles, etc., etc...