An estimated 2 million parents and young children could be turned away from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) as the program faces an anticipated $1 billion shortfall in 2024, according to a new analysis released by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
A group of hard-line conservatives are threatening to derail the fiscal 2024 appropriations process in the House, further clouding prospects for an agreement on spending with the Senate later this year, including legislation funding USDA and FDA.
The House Appropriations Committee this week will takes up an unusually partisan funding bill for the USDA and FDA that highlights some major cuts to spending Republicans would like to make, even as President Joe Biden even as debt ceiling negotiations lurch toward a June deadline.
beef or that butter is now bad. so, at what point does the nanny state become so absurdly opposed to popular culture that you have to back up a long step and say, wait a second, do i really want you in my life on every front? we re not trying to get in your life on every front. we re not going into your refrigerator, not telling you what to buy. the wic food program is called the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children. the goal of that program is to provides food and nutrients that are lacking in low-income women and children s diets. and so it s not like food stamps where it just gives family resources to buy whatever food they want. there s a list of foods that are part of the wic food package and those foods are designed to meet specific nutrient deficiencies that are common in low you mean this is not a nutrition deficiency? is that the point? turns out that the potato industry is doing just fine and plenty of