WH to Dems: Shutdown Threatens WIC Benefits
for Mothers, Children
Real Clear Politics,
by
Philip Wegmann
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
9/27/2025 11:57:23 AM
The pain of a government shutdown won’t just be political: Millions of low-income women and children could be left hungry as soon as next week if congressional Democrats and the White House do not come to a deal.
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children will soon run out of funding. If they don’t cut a deal to keep the government open, a senior White House official told RealClearPolitics, “Democrats would be turning their back on WIC recipients.”
Called WIC for short, the program provides vouchers for healthy food to low-income pregnant and postpartum women,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 9/27/2025 11:59:04 AM (No. 2009762)
Oh, well. I still don't care. Shut it SOWN, leave it closed for six months for all I care....including if my SS checks don't come....I won't care.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Noj15 9/27/2025 12:39:32 PM (No. 2009787)
Republican House has already signed off on the bill and sent it to the Senate, where the Democrats fumbled badly. This is on the Dems, and everybody knows it. When the Shutdown comes, thousands of bloated fed workers will get pink slips, never to return. 4D chess by the Master.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jalo1951 9/27/2025 12:46:23 PM (No. 2009792)
Our government is too big, it tries to do too much, it prints too much Monopoly money to throw at their chosen "causes", too many regulations, too much give away just because. Stop it! Get your act together and start dropping more projects than what DOGE found to be flawed or unnecessary. Obamacare was always a scam with us taxpayers footing the bill for certain people and the dems want more. We don't have it. Pass the extension and then get busy with trimming this whale of a government.
36 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
franq 9/27/2025 12:52:09 PM (No. 2009795)
We go through this farce every year.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
kdsils60 9/27/2025 12:54:47 PM (No. 2009798)
Of course... everybody is going to die if the Almighty Government loses ONE DOLLAR - every single person in the Unites States will instanteously die from the plague, starvation and civil unrest - EVERY ONE OF US... dead, gone, extinct ---- we must never, ever stop the river flow of money into the federal gov't and anyone who would dare utter a contrary word to this must, be muzzled - oh, those haters - how dare they take ONE DOLLAR from my gov't issued wallet!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
czechlist 9/27/2025 1:04:12 PM (No. 2009800)
The left wing media will still loudly blame Trump and Conservatives.The stupids will believe them.
The zero signed the last TRUE BUDGET in 2009 but it was only because it had passed both Houses during W's term. "The One" immediately managed to get almost a $Billion in new spending added to it. Been nothing but Continuing Resolutiins ever since.
27 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/27/2025 1:23:33 PM (No. 2009803)
Correct, WH. Control the narrative. Make the dims and the msm play second fiddle. But stay on it, Karoline Leavitt, and don't show any weakness. Make the dims and the msm look like the fools they are.
27 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/27/2025 2:07:44 PM (No. 2009811)
How terrible, that all the people scamming the WIC program, and there are a lot of scammers, might have to use their play around money on food for their children. All these kids that get pregnant, and hold off getting married because Uncle Sugar is paying the bills, might have to assume some responsibility!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 9/27/2025 2:23:51 PM (No. 2009815)
Talk about another abused program, WIC. When I am in the grocery store, the largest number of people using federal vouchers, are young Hispanic women with children. If they are US citizens of any origin, fine. If not, they need to go back to their own country.
Time to shut down the government and ferret out the abusers of American taxpayers' unappreciated largesse.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 9/27/2025 3:33:22 PM (No. 2009831)
@#1 - Social Security 'checks' are all electronic. Computers are programmed to send out money monthly. No human really has to do anything.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Californian 9/27/2025 3:43:21 PM (No. 2009833)
When republicans are the hold outs, republicans hate women and children and want them to starve.
When democrats are the hold outs, republicans hate women and children and want them to starve.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/27/2025 6:43:50 PM (No. 2009872)
Maybe they will be forced to get a j-o-b, or hit up one of the baby daddies for some support money, if they can find them. American taxpayers have been supporting deadbeats and ghetto queens since the 1960s.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
thefield 9/27/2025 8:32:13 PM (No. 2009898)
What a headlne, "Schumer shutdown hurts women and children" of course getting it printed is the problem.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 9/27/2025 10:55:27 PM (No. 2009914)
#10 That's why you have a 120 year old still receiving the check.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 9/28/2025 6:34:11 AM (No. 2009934)
Social Security is a program that people pay into with hard-earned monies. To treat it in any other fashion is reckless and heartless. Like #14 suggests, there may be cases of fraud involved but that falls on whoever is receiving those monies. Why am I making this point? WIC and Social Security are totally different entities and my first sentence states the difference.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
billa57 9/28/2025 7:25:27 AM (No. 2009945)
Sounds like a good opportunity to lay-off thousands of dead wood employees. Dems don't care what happens to their US citizen constituents, only their illegal immigrants brought in replace them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/28/2025 7:54:49 AM (No. 2009959)
Those porkers could all stand to lose a little weight.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JimBob 9/28/2025 11:30:37 AM (No. 2010042)
My understanding is that Schumer is demanding restoring all the funding cuts recommended by DOGE and which were included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as a condition to even start talking.
It sounds to me like the 'Rats are adopting the Islamist's method of negotiating.
"Give us what WE want, before we even start talking."
I say make it loud and clear -and do it so that the Lamestreams are forced to cover it- that it is the Schumer Shutdown!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Chicagoan 9/28/2025 10:15:38 PM (No. 2010230)
What is particularly annoying is that the unnecessary federal workers who get furloughed are brought back when the Congress gets its act together and ALL RECEIVE BACK PAY. So it's another vacation for them.
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