Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie: I'm now wondering if there's any way to rewrite or reinterpret whatever provision created this program to ignore states entirely and connect directly with organizations doing food assistance work in those states -- I'm sure they would welcome the funds

The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

I'm now wondering if there's any way to rewrite or reinterpret whatever provision created this program to ignore states entirely and connect directly with organizations doing food assistance work in those states -- I'm sure they would welcome the funds

As a progressive county-level official, I regret to inform you the answer is no. We already reached out to USDA.

Damn! And thank you for sharing that information. What was the legal reason they gave?

We asked back in February and received this response late March.

But please keep up with creative thinking! My governing philosophy in the face of a spiteful State is that of malicious compliance.

Hell yeah brother

I think one option might be to direct funds to FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP), the funds go from there directly to nonprofit food and shelter orgs

That's certainly worthy of further investigation; god knows we've suffered enough disasters that FEMA is busy in these parts.

Wonder what is legal reason states can opt out? Before (execrable) Roberts’ ACA decision, I thought the rule was you have to take all of a fed program, like Medicaid, or highway funds, or reject it all.

Thank you so much for checking

We must try.

With this Supreme Court? I’ve seen this movie before, sadly

I'm trying to see a sequel where they do it anyway regardless of what the Court does

Well they did just make Joe Biden king…

And why on earth would they not allow a pass-through so they don't have to dirty their hands feeding hungry children. It's pretty hard to believe there are people this cravenly sadistic. You'd think they'd do it just to grift/steal off of administering it.

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