{"id":7654,"date":"2026-07-10T07:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:29:09","slug":"for-sale-childrens-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7654","title":{"rendered":"For Sale \u2014 Children\u2019s Nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtoninformer.com\/author\/julianne-malveaux\/\">Julianne Malveaux<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are calling it a budget cut. But let\u2019s be clear: when Congress cuts WIC, it is taking food from pregnant women, babies, toddlers and young children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WIC is not cash welfare. It is not a giveaway. It is one of the most efficient and humane nutrition programs this country has ever created. It provides targeted food support, breastfeeding support, nutrition counseling and health referrals to pregnant and postpartum women, infants and children up to age five. It helps families buy milk, eggs, cereal, formula, fruits, vegetables and other basics that make the difference between nourishment and hunger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the House has decided that these families should do with less.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n<div class=\"newspack_global_ad scaip-1 fixed-height\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-caf9af3267-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 4, the House passed the fiscal 2027 agriculture appropriations bill, including a $200 million cut to WIC and a reduction in the fruit-and-vegetable benefit. For a family already stretching every dollar, that is not an abstraction. That is fewer apples. Fewer greens. Less formula. Less food at the very moment when food matters most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The numbers are stark. The House bill cuts WIC by $200 million and reduces the fruit-and-vegetable benefit. The White House proposal goes even further, slashing the monthly produce benefit for young children from $26 to about $10. That is a $16 cut per child each month \u2014 more than 60% \u2014 in the very part of WIC designed to put fresh food on the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some will say that $16 a month is not much. But $16 is only \u201cnot much\u201d to people who have never been down to their last $16. For a family living on the edge, $16 is milk and bananas, eggs and apples, bus fare to the grocery store, or the difference between buying fresh food and buying the cheapest calories available. A cut does not have to be large to be cruel. Sometimes the last $16 is the last straw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is what cruelty looks like when it wears a green eyeshade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are told, endlessly, that this nation cares about children. Politicians pose with babies, praise mothers, salute families and campaign on \u201cvalues.\u201d But values are not measured by slogans. They are measured by budgets. And a budget that takes food from women and children tells us exactly whose lives are expendable.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n<div class=\"newspack_global_ad scaip-2 fixed-height\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-2bd992b9b0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WIC also supports farmers, grocers and local food economies. When a mother uses WIC dollars to buy fresh fruit, vegetables, milk, eggs, cereal or formula, that money does not disappear. It goes to grocery stores, farmers markets, dairy producers, food distributors and growers who depend on regular customers. Less WIC money means fewer purchases of healthy food. It means fewer dollars circulating in local communities. It means that a cut aimed at poor women and children also reaches farmers and small businesses. Nutrition dollars are economic dollars, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is especially important because healthy food is already too expensive for too many families. Fruits and vegetables are often the first things to disappear from a household budget when money gets tight. WIC helps keep those foods on the table. Cutting the fruit-and-vegetable benefit does not simply reduce choice; it narrows possibility. It tells a mother to stretch, substitute and make do. It tells a child that fresh food is optional. It tells farmers that the public dollars that helped families buy their produce are no longer a priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What kind of country negotiates over the nutrition of infants? What kind of Congress looks at pregnant women and toddlers and says, \u201cYou cost too much\u201d? What kind of moral arithmetic takes fresh fruit and vegetables from a child\u2019s plate while protecting tax breaks, weapons contracts, corporate subsidies and political theater? What kind of Congress spends nearly $2 billion a day on an undeclared war against Iran, then skimps on food for children?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House has acted. The Senate\u2019s version of the bill \u2014 and whatever compromise emerges between the two chambers \u2014 will decide whether these cuts survive. That means advocacy matters now. Not next month. Not after recess. Now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ask is simple: fully fund WIC. Reject cuts to the fruit-and-vegetable benefit. Preserve the virtual and remote services that make WIC accessible to working mothers, rural families and those without easy transportation. Do not balance the budget on babies.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n<div class=\"newspack_global_ad scaip-3 fixed-height\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-dc2e0e383b-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States can find money for tax breaks, weapons, walls, corporate subsidies and billionaire giveaways. Surely it can find money for bananas, carrots, milk, cereal, formula and breastfeeding support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The families who rely on WIC are not asking for luxury. They are asking for food. They are asking for nourishment. They are asking for a basic public commitment that babies should not go hungry, that pregnant women should not be undernourished and that children should have access to the building blocks of health. That should not be controversial. It should be the floor beneath our politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When children are hungry, delay is a decision. When pregnant women are undernourished, silence is complicity. And when Congress chooses austerity for babies while protecting abundance for the powerful, we should name it for what it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not fiscal discipline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is moral failure.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-4    \">\n<div class=\"newspack_global_ad scaip-4 fixed-height\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-ca419f6974-0\">Source: Published without changes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtoninformer.com\/congress-cuts-wic-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Informer Newspaper<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Julianne Malveaux They are calling it a budget cut. 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