Food and nutrition, counseling to pregnant women and the mothers of infants and children up to age 5. Wi skrshgs food for babies, food that includes baby formula, an expense that can run up to 2,000 for the first year of life. Lets be clear. Kids and babies who could go hungry if we dont open for business soon. The Government Shutdown is serious. And the political reeyal ti of letting little ones go hungry may be sinking in for House Republicans. Friday, they voted to, quote, refund wic, but only after there was a major outcry in the media about it, and still without an offer to fund the rest of the government. Something that advocates for wic called a cynical ploy to use lowincome, nutritionally atrisk mothers and Young Children as political pawns for political ends. That could not take the place of actual longterm funding. So instead of producing serious alternatives, washington just keeps on giving us nuggets of absurdity. We here in nerdland are big fans of political absurdity so,
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0 this week because their head start program was closed down. mother who is now have to divert money that they didn t have to finding daycare so they can go to work. mimy my view of this is biased because i live in the washington, d.c., area, seeing the trickle-down is incredible. people in new york may not know about it. in d.c., for some of us it s great, there s no question, but at the same time, my neighbors are staying home. my neighbors are federal government workers. and then the collateral consequences of the businesses that rely upon government workerses, we re trying to see the economy hit this last point. this point about your neighbors being federal government workers, raul, the other piece of it is that for these congressmen, for these senators, but particularly for the members of the house, their constituents are federal government workers. we took a look at there s a group of people who are the we re calling them the reasonable republicans, 20 or so of them, if boe