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
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
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