Some have given reasons, dumb as they may sound. Like Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, who said she saw no need for the extra money for hungry kids "when childhood obesity has become an epidemic."

I suppose I should not be surprised that the person who endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president could sound so empty and evil in her thinking.

Other Republican governors, as The Washington Post noted in its story about the GOP pushback on helping fight child hunger in America, were even more blunt.

"I don't believe in welfare," Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen explained when asked why he rejected the money.

Pillen ultimately changed his mind after Nebraska state Sen. Jen Day, a Democrat, introduced a bill to require participation and found a Republican ally as well as a swell of support from voters in rural areas.

It was a mistake to not use political capital to pressure Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) into supporting the continued expansion of the child tax credit, which cut child poverty in half.

It would be another mistake to allow Republicans - and their Democrat-when-convenient friend - to wield their power to hurt American children. If Republicans could falsely brand Democrats as "groomers," they should be branded as pro-child starvation.

Sometimes conservative politics is akin to an intentionally cognitive dissonant mental disease, totally devoid of empathy and compassion. At other times - like this - it's also abject cruelty and forced suffering thrust onto the backs of those already struggling to merely stand up from the weight of life's burdens placed upon them, many times beyond their personal control.

There is no reason that every person espousing real morality shouldn't fight for Americans struggling to feed themselves and their families. And state leaders who refuse to allow federal government assistance to reach these children and families should be personally shamed and shunned for the barbarism such humane indifference reflects.

Whoops... The title should be 'Disgraceful' not 'Disgrateful'.

You did it in the front and the back.

"I" have no ability to edit once 'Save Entry" is pushed. That is why I posted the correction hoping that RCade would catch it should in the event he placed the thread on the Front Page. Obviously, he missed it.

People don't have enough money to feed their kids under this president but it's the Republican's fault? Seriously?

You need to remove the fish scales from your eyes and comprehend what's clearly written.

YES, it's Republican governor's faults for unilaterally refusing to allow these needy children to receive food benefits that Congress and this President legislated for them to have!

Are you really that dense that you can't understand this simple reality?

Definitely a headline fail. People do not die of starvation in this country.

No headline fail, just reality. Would you please STFU you ignorant fool!

And in anticipation of a probable reply, there's this:

The state your link focused on was California.

"The same trend occurred nationwide, with malnutrition deaths more than doubling, from about 9,300 deaths in 2018 to roughly 20,500 in 2022, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

Damn son, are you really that touched in the head that you can't even comprehend that the above destroys your ignorant assertion? The ------- headline says "U.S. ... Deaths ...".

Does "nationwide" mean California? You said "(P)eople do not die of starvation," yet 20,500 died in 2022 and 9,300 died in 2018, 2 years BEFORE covid.