The program—part of federal assistance made available during the pandemic—would help families whose children are eligible for free and reduced-price lunches at school.
And its only administrative costs: the federal government would be paying for the program. He doesn’t want to pay for someone to coordinate and do the paperwork for someone else to feed his state’s disadvantaged program. He doesn’t want to pay for someone to run a program to bring like 50 times the spending into his state
It’s worse than that.
It’s $40/month, and only for the 3 months of summer to make up for impoverished children not getting meals through school during the summer.
These people are ghouls.
And its only administrative costs: the federal government would be paying for the program. He doesn’t want to pay for someone to coordinate and do the paperwork for someone else to feed his state’s disadvantaged program. He doesn’t want to pay for someone to run a program to bring like 50 times the spending into his state
That would be a more interesting headline: Nebraska governor doesn’t want to pay 1 million to get children 50 million worth of federal food grant.