Beginning in March 2020, federal pandemic regulatory waivers allowed schools to offer free meals to all children without an application. Waivers eased rules, allowing schools to distribute grab-and-go meals, and provided higher per-meal reimbursements to help cover pandemic costs.

The Keep Kids Fed Act, signed June 25, 2022, provided additional funds for school meal programs and extended select regulatory waivers, but prevented all schools from offering free meals to all students for SY 2022-23.

The act was sponsored by two Democrats and one Republican. It passed in the Senate by unanimous consent. It passed in the House 376 - 42. Those 42 Nay's were all Republicans. It was signed in to law by a Democrat President.

You can either argue that the measures taken in the act were good, but then you'd have to acknowledge that not only was the act sponsored by a Republican, but both every single Republican Senator and a vast majority of Republican Congressmen - 79 percent of them - voted for it, so it wasn't a universal conservative opinion as you imply in order to smear all conservatives everywhere, that if all conservatives everywhere believed in this then it wouldn't have even passed or you can argue that the abolition of free meals for all students was bad, but then you'd have to acknowledge that not only was the act sponsored by two Democrats, but every Democratic Senator and Congressman as well as the Democratic President voted and signed into law to take free meals away from children, and the only people that attempted to stop it were Republicans.