Expanding Food Aid Opens Fresh Partisan Divisions in Congress

President Joe Biden’s $45 billion proposal to expand school nutrition aid and promote healthy eating is opening a new front for partisan skirmishes over how much the government should spend as the nation recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.

One-fifth of the nation’s kids are considered obese. Biden’s American Families Plan, released this week, also includes summer food benefits and gives access for some formerly incarcerated Americans to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps.

The Covid-19 outbreaks showed that “many of our neighbors are one crisis away from being food insecure,” House Agriculture Committee member Chellie ...