The Trump government shut down has exacerbated the hunger challenge families face, something Strib had published on earlier, regarding local food bank usage accelerating.
Now, credit noted where due, Strib carries nationwide coverage:\
Government shutdown threatens food aid program relied on by millions of families
The Associated PressOctober 6, 2025
Where's JD? Or is it Charlie was a good Christian Nationalist, but for these dirverse needy families, silently hope they fend well for themselves? Let it go and then say they're eating cats and dogs?
This large share of need is properly noted. Strib does report it, and readers should seek out the item.
Briefly, Strib (the AP this time) notes:
WASHINGTON — A food aid program that helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, forcing states to use their own money to keep it afloat or risk it shutting down, experts say.
The $8 billion Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, also known as WIC, provides vouchers to buy infant formula as well as fresh fruits and vegetables, low-fat milk and other healthy staples that are often out of financial reach for low-income households.
The shutdown, which began Wednesday, coincided with the beginning of a new fiscal year, meaning programs like WIC, which rely on annual infusions from the federal government, are nearly out of money. Currently, the program is being kept afloat by an $150 million contingency fund, but experts say it could run dry quickly.
If Trump is softening his intransigence, and the Republicans will not relent upon their trial to force Senate Democrats to acept the healthcare devestation of the Big Trump/Project 2025 Bill, Trump then should use his effort, JD's also, to get the Senate Republicans to soften their log jam bully tactics. It is what leadership is about and the White House can push to end their shutdown without a big share of Medicaid down the toilet while defense spending under the Big Project 2025 Bill suffers nothing.
Trump holds power enough over the Senate to have Republicans follow whatever course he charts.
He only needs to note the food challenge his MAGA people are facing, to rescue them.
Strib's AP reporting notes finger pointing over the shutdown, which helps nobody and lessens public trust of DC and the politicians in it, and then notess:
Some Republican lawmakers want to cut WIC, which is targeted for elimination in Project 2025, the influential policy blueprint authored by the man who’s now President Donald Trump’s budget chief. Trump’s budget request and the spending plan backed by House Republicans would not fully fund the program. They also want to cut funding for families to buy fresh fruits and vegetables.
Some states pledge to plug gaps in food aid
In the event of an extended shutdown, several states have sought to reassure WIC recipients that they will continue to receive benefits. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, said the state will pick up the tab if federal funding runs out.
‘’I want those young families, those moms, to know that your WIC card will continue to be good for the foreseeable future,’’ Lamont said. ‘’We’re making sure that the government does not take that away from you.’’
But in Washington state, where a third of babies receive WIC benefits, officials say they do not have the money to keep the program open.
Lost ground on adequate nutrition would be hard to make up, and the new Republican medical thing under Kennedy is to say preventative steps will cut costs. So, prevent the demise of a food program fior the needy while politicians are gaming against one another. Be better. Do the right thing.
Fund against hunger in the most prosperous nation, or call it the nation that was that before Trump 47.
Don't make it about cutting food for the needy, or medical attention for them, one or the other, but fund both adequately, as had been done before wanting tax cuts for wealthy Republicans to run the show, and danmed be the bulk of the people.
Do read the AP/Strib item, or search the web for other outlets carrying the AP item, and possibly expanding it to include local need at other parts of the nation, beyond Strib's having already shown a focus on food bank stress in Minnesota.
Last, the time to act is now, not pushing the shutdown to record duration, to prove whatever.