Because only deserving, financially stable babies should be fed, I guess.

Nine Republicans in the House of Representatives have voted against a bill that aims to facilitate the purchase of baby formula for those on low-income federal support programs. The Access to Baby Formula Act, also known as H.R. 7791, would allow low-income women to buy more baby formula through the federal Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program.

The nine lawmakers who voted about the bill were all Republicans. They are: Reps.
Andy Biggs (Arizona),
Lauren Boebert (Colorado),
Matt Gaetz (Florida),
Louie Gohmert (Texas),
Paul Gosar (Arizona),
Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia),
Clay Higgins (Louisiana),
Thomas Massie (Kentucky)
Chip Roy (Texas).

Explaining his decision, Gaetz said that passing H.R. 7791 would make the baby formula shortages "worse for most Americans. It will allow WIC to utilize a far greater portion of the baby formula market, crowding out many hard-working American families."

windinhishair · 61-69, M

It has been obvious for a long time that the Republican commitment to the unborn ends at birth. After that, they are on their own.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@windinhishair And nothing exemplifies this more. You must have a child because your government says so. Because now in this society, a woman must be utterly infallible in her decisions of intimacy or she will pay a lifelong price.

No legislation's being discussed to compel men to support a newly born child. No legislation's being passed to ensure that child has the presence and efforts of two co-creating parents.

And once born? If you have the growing misfortune of being born to a woman who needs some support to raise the child she's been forced to bear, you get no food until the rest of the nation has eaten. Because we're "all about the children" here. The ones we like. The ones we want.

To stand for overturning Roe v. Wade but to stand against assisting with the outcome of your joint decisions is blatant and transparent ignorance and bias. There isn't another way to see this because it is what it is and it won't be made into a winding maze of state's rights, parties and empty rhetoric. A nation that won't even help its own is no good to anyone. And a nation of no use will inevitably decline and fall.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@Graylight You can tell the character of a nation by how it treats its poorest and neediest citizens. The US fails miserably on that account, and the Republicans boast about it.