"House Republicans are still trying to fool the American people into believing that they really want to fund the government. The reason why this vote was a sham was that WIC has enough funding to last through the month of October. The National WIC Association strongly came out against the Republican resolution to restore funding, “Funding the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in this piecemeal, short-term, stop-gap manner is not an acceptable solution. WIC has sufficient funds to operate through the month of October giving Congress more than sufficient time to pass a “clean” continuing resolution followed by the already marked-up full year FY-2014 House and Senate Agriculture Appropriations bills to fund WIC and the other critical child nutrition programs through the end of the 2014 fiscal year.” Republicans like Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) took to the House floor to literally scream that this vote was about the children. What about the children? However, it is difficult to take the House Republicans concern for women and children seriously when earlier this year they voted to cut spending on WIC so deeply that 375,000 to 425,000 eligible low income women and children will be thrown off the program."
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 01:19:09 +0000
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