Moving beyond efforts to block expansion of health care for the poor and disabled, Republican governors in 15 states are now rejecting a new, federally funded summer program to give food assistance to hungry children.

The program is expected to serve 21 million youngsters starting around June, providing $2.5 billion in relief across the country.

  • mastefetri@infosec.pub
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    6 months ago

    Just bypass the states entirely and send the money directly to the qualifying families. Federal programs shouldn’t need a rubber stamp from backwater states anyways. These assholes are virtue signaling while kids go hungry.

    • HubertManne@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      I was thinking with the fauci hearings how insane it is that we have so many folks that vote for these guys.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      6 months ago

      If you can, do more than vote: volunteer and give money to campaigns.

      I recommend picking out close races to work on. Besides president, there are a ton of house, senate, and state-level races to be involved with.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Just blame the computers ….

      https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2024-01-08/vermont-opts-out-of-new-federal-food-assistance-program-due-to-administrative-costs

      In Vermont, meanwhile, the organization that’s leading the charge to end childhood hunger in the state is backing the administration’s decision not to participate in Summer EBT this year.

      Anore Horton, executive director of Hunger Free Vermont, said state agencies currently lack the technical infrastructure for a successful launch of Summer EBT.

      “Our state agencies are eager to participate in Summer EBT, and they are committed to starting Summer EBT in summer of 2025,” Horton said. “So it’s not that they’re saying, ‘We’re not going to do this.’ They’re saying, ‘We’re not going to do this in Summer 2024.'”

  • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ® said she saw no need to add money to a program that helps food-insecure youths “when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.”

    What is wrong with these people? I just can’t even.

    If these Republican governors were the villains in a book or movie or something, people would say they’re too over the top evil and not believable.