Image: Shoppers wait in line at a grocery store in Washington, DC on January 23, 2026. (Photo by Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson of Common Dreams reports: “House Republicans faced mounting anger on Thursday after proposing hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to a program that provides food aid to millions of vulnerable women and children across the United States.
The cuts were proposed in an appropriations bill to fund the US Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies. The Republican legislation would cut $200 million from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in the coming fiscal year at a time when families nationwide are struggling to afford groceries.
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