The federal program, set to start this summer, was approved as part of a bipartisan budget agreement in 2022.

The governors have given varying reasons for refusing to take part, from the price tag to the fact that the final details of the plan have yet to be worked out. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ( R) said she saw no need to add money to a program that helps food-insecure youths “when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.” Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen ( R) said bluntly, “I don’t believe in welfare.”

  • @krashmo@lemmy.world
    45•6 months ago

    From the preamble to the Constitution of the USA:

    We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

    I think any one of the bolded items could be reasonably interpreted to include “make sure kids have food”. You are of course free to disagree but that seems pretty disingenuous to me.

    • Omega
      24•6 months ago

      A lot of people in the US really hate founding principles of the US. Which is fine, but they should really own up to it.

      • snooggums
        3•6 months ago

        A lot of people treat the founding principles like they do their religious literature, ignoring everything they don’t like and keeping the tiny snippets that support what they already believe.