If you controlled the government's purse strings, would you cut school nutrition programs or eliminate tax breaks for America's millionaires and billionaires?

This is a question asked in a new TV ad campaign sponsored by Vote Kids, a children's advocacy group. The ads are airing in Iowa and New Hampshire this week as Republican presidential candidates prepare to open their bids for their party's nomination.

The goal of the campaign, says Vote Kids President Michael Petit, is to bring attention to just how much the Republican Party's budget plan includes cuts for programs that directly and indirectly affect children.

“We want to bring attention to how children will be harmed as a result of federal budget proposals which already have passed the House of Representatives," Petit said, referring to the Republican Party's plan.

"The so-called Ryan budget slashes programs vital to children and families, including Head Start, child care, public safety, child nutrition, education, Pell Grants, Community and Development Block Grants, and jobs programs," he added.

The Republican Party's plan contains "shortsighted actions that would weaken America’s global economic competitiveness, which is why we want kids’ issues to be a prominent part of the debate in the forthcoming presidential campaign," Petit explained.

In addition, Vote Kids pointed out, the Republican plan would convert Medicaid into block grants and result in $1.4 trillion in cuts, while doing nothing to reduce health care costs. These cuts would affect the 30 million children nationwide served by Medicaid. It also would cut the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program by $127 billion, or 20 percent, over the next ten years. Millions of families would be affected, leading to increased hunger and poverty.

While cutting health care and nutrition programs for working families and children, the Ryan Budget gives those Americans earning more than $1 million an additional $125,000 yearly tax break.