A food aid program designed to help low-income pregnant women, new mothers, and young children get access to healthy food, nutrition education, and health care referrals will be funded through October, the U.S. Department of Agriculture told congressional staff Thursday in a briefing, reports Politico.
The plan involves using $300 million in tariff revenue from child nutrition programs left over from the prior calendar year to fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which was expecting fresh federal funding as the new fiscal year started on Oct. 1.
The government shutdown has reached Day 10, and the $8 billion WIC program, which helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children, was being kept afloat by a $150 million contingency fund.
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