From World Socialist Website 10/7/2025
The ongoing government shutdown, provoked by the Trump administration and enabled by Democrats in Congress, is being utilized to implement an unprecedented assault on the working class, focusing on the mass firings of federal workers and the destruction of vital social programs. Central to this program of social counterrevolution is the immediate threat to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, widely known as WIC, a program serving nearly 7 million pregnant women, new mothers, infants and young children who rely on it as a nutritional lifeline.
In the over 50 years since WIC was created, Congress has never cut WIC benefits, ensuring the program had enough funding to serve its projected caseload. The devastating cuts proposed in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would deprive struggling families of the essential nutrition they need during critical developmental stages.
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