Extra Food Aid for Women, Children Extended in GOP Stopgap Bill

Sept. 16, 2025, 6:56 PM UTC

House Republicans included nutrition support and livestock market tracking extensions in a temporary spending bill released Tuesday.

The continuing resolution proposed by the House Appropriations Committee would provide funding at a rate “necessary to maintain participation” to the Agriculture Department’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children — or WIC — through Nov. 21. The Trump administration earlier in September requested $8.2 billion in WIC funding for a stopgap measure through January 2026 to continue providing food aid to low-income pregnant women and young mothers.

Broad bipartisan support for the federal program has prevented states administering WIC from ...

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