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Miles Archer

(20,450 posts)
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 08:55 PM Thursday

All of the GOP posturing in the world won't mean SH*T once mothers can't feed infant children, and it's coming

The OBBBA ends health coverage and food assistance for millions of people at a time when more than 47 million Americans—including 1 in 5 US children—are living in food insecure households.

While Trump said this week that he would use tariff revenues to temporarily fund WIC, it is unclear how he could do so absent an act of Congress.

”Congressional Republicans need to put food back on the table for struggling families by passing a bipartisan spending bill that protects food access,“ Jones said.

Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) said on social media: ”Families shouldn’t pay the price for GOP dysfunction. We must protect WIC and the people who rely on it.“

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-shutdown-2674171331/
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