How much food assistance is too much? [Video]

At the height of the Christmas giving season, the governors of Iowa and Nebraska, two largely rural, heavily agricultural states, chose to play Grinch by turning down tens of millions of federal food assistance dollars “to help feed children who might otherwise go hungry while school is out” this summer, reported The Associated Press.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds rejected $20 million in federal food aid — or about $40 per month for every low-income child in the state — for the 2024 Summer EBT Program because, she explained, it “does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.”

Reynolds didn’t explain how denying food to low-income Iowa school children this summer addresses the childhood obesity “epidemic” she sees in her state.

Likewise, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen rejected $18 million in federal money to feed the state’s school children this summer by noting that “COVID-19 …