Jeff Bridges: 'Feds getting in the way' of deal while leaders 'use feeding kids as a weapon'

Actor Jeff Bridges slammed lawmakers for using the feeding of children as a weapon during the government shutdown Thursday on Jake Tapper's CNN show "The Lead."

"The Big Lebowski" star is an activist primarily known for his work to end childhood hunger and combat plastic pollution. He is a notable member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition and the national spokesperson for Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign since 2010.

"It's so bizarre here in the wealthiest country in the world. We have enough food, we have enough money, we have enough programs to end childhood hunger. To use feeding kids as a weapon going back and forth doesn't make any sense," he said.

An estimated 7.3 million households with children will lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits on Saturday. Other federal nutrition programs that serve children are also being affected, such as the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and Head Start, which provides early education and development for children.

Bridges is outraged and speaking out No Kid Hungry's national spokesman.

"Billy (Shore, the founder of Share Our Strength) and I have been traveling all over the country talking to governors and mayors in the states themselves, Republicans, Democrats and independents all agree, we should feed our kids," he told Tapper.

"There's no reason not to do that. And to have the feds getting in the way of this thing, talk about bizarre," he added.