Millions of children could go hungry this week

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Trump’s government shutdown could leave millions of kids hungry this week. Urge your Senator: Protect funding for WIC nutrition assistance! ([link removed])

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John,

More than one in four children under age 5 in America depend on food assistance from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).

If Trump’s shutdown persists this week, the WIC program could run out of funding — putting 5.3 million children at risk of going hungry.

Earlier this year, Trump’s Big Ugly Bill stripped SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) food benefits from two million vulnerable Americans. The proposed Republican spending bill makes the state of food affordability even worse and fails to fully fund WIC to offset rising grocery costs and inflation, underfunding it by $600 million over the course of the year. Parents can’t feed their babies on political games.

Tell your Senator today: Reject the GOP Spending bill and fully fund WIC now. ([link removed])

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These cuts would hit states like California, New York, North Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Vermont especially hard — and in Puerto Rico, where 76% of children under five rely on WIC. The impacts nationwide would be catastrophic.

Congressional Democrats have offered a short-term funding bill that would fully protect WIC. But the House Republicans’ proposal under Trump’s shutdown would leave millions of families without the nutrition their kids need.

Your senators need to hear from you right now: WIC must be fully funded — no backdoor cuts. ([link removed])

Together, we can push our Senators to take action to protect WIC.

Rebecca Wolf
Senior Food Policy Analyst
Food & Water Action

P.S. Our sister organization, Food & Water Watch, used U.S. Department of Agriculture data on WIC participation, along with U.S. Census Bureau population data, to map the number and percentage of young children in each state that are at risk of losing these crucial benefits. ([link removed])

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