Shutdown Threatens WIC Benefits for Mothers, Children
The pain of the closure of a government will not only be political: if the congress democrats and the White House do not reach an agreement, millions of low -income women and children will not hungry as soon as possible next week.
Special complementary nutrition program for women, babies and children will soon run out of financing. “The Democrats would return to the WIC buyers,” if they did not agree to keep the government open, to a senior White House official Realclearpolitics.
The so -called WIC, the program provides coupons for healthy foods for low -income pregnant and postpartum women, babies and young children. The $ 7 billion program is completely financed by the federal government, but this money is expected to run out on October 1. New beneficiaries will not register and that the existing WIC Utilitors can not be reinstalling their cards.
“The program would run out of money in October and women and children were no longer benefited,” a senior management official said. He said. “White House and House -Passed Cr republicans added $ 600 million, so there will be no loss of benefit – the Democrats WIC WIC benefits are clearly good for women and children.”
As the registration increases and the cost of food continues to increase, the program has been increasingly difficult in recent years. There is a small emergency fund of approximately $ 150 million, but it is not enough money to provide more than 6.7 million food aid based on this program. The management searched for additional money to re -program, but it took a short time.
“There is no more quarter on the pillows,” he said. “Maybe it takes us another day.”
Parliament republicans made a decision to keep the government open until 20 November. Additional money for new security for executive and judicial branches and programmed change to increase $ 1 billion for the DC city government does not make big new spending changes.
Congress democrats under pressure from the base and led by Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer underwent this agreement and tried to open negotiations with the White House. They are looking for concessions about health expenditures in exchange for their support. On Tuesday, President Trump suddenly canceled a meeting with democratic leadership.
“In order to keep our country open by the minority radical left democrats, I decided that no meeting with congress leaders could not be productive after examining the details of the nonsense demands that were not made by the minority radical left democrats in exchange for their votes.”
The crime game began soon after, Schumer detonated the White House because he refused to speak. Donald Trump causes closing, Sch Schumer said at a press conference on Tuesday. “This is a Trump closing and currently existence towards him, and he knows he will be accused of closing.”
The White House then increased the pressure rapidly and threatened to use a government’s federal labor force further again. If the lights go out, the management and budget office director Russ Vought warned that thousands of government employees may lose their jobs permanently. On the home façade, the White House is now warning, millions of kitchen tables may begin to be naked.
Philip Wegmann is a White House correspondent for Realclearpolitics.
