Protect WIC!

Protect WIC

Funding for WIC, the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program, which is a lifeline for millions of families, is at risk. Your voice is needed to protect WIC during the current fiscal year 2026 budget process. With food costs continuing to rise, WIC participation rates continuing to increase, and severe cuts to food assistance just passed by Congress, we must keep the pressure on our lawmakers to protect this program.

WIC has had strong bipartisan support in the past – so we can (and need to) build strong support now. In fact, for the past 30 years, there has been a bipartisan commitment in Congress to provide the funding to serve all eligible WIC participants. Last month, the U.S. Senate advanced a funding bill that continues this bipartisan tradition to fully fund WIC. The Senate bill also protects the popular cash value benefit (CVB) so that WIC participants can continue to purchase fruits and vegetables. Now the bill is being considered in the U.S. House, and so far, the House and White House proposals include insufficient funding for WIC and reduce the fruit and vegetable benefit.

Any cuts to funding or benefit amounts— especially during this time of rising grocery prices — would harm the over 6 million women and children who participate in WIC to provide healthy food for their families and build good lives.

Take Action to urge your U.S. Representative to support the Senate-passed bill that fully funds WIC and preserves the fruit and vegetable benefit!

Dear member of Congress:

With food costs continuing to rise, WIC participation rates continuing to increase, and severe cuts to food assistance just passed, we urge you to fully fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).

WIC gives hard-working moms the tools they need to take care of their families and build good lives. We urge you to continue the decades-long bipartisan commitment in Congress to provide the necessary funding to serve all eligible WIC participants. Any cuts to funding or benefit amounts— especially during this time of rising grocery prices— would harm the over 6 million women and children who participate in WIC to provide healthy food for their families.

Extensive research has found WIC to be a cost-effective investment that strengthens both our local and national economy and improves the nutrition and health of hard-working low-income families— leading to healthier infants, more nutritious diets, and better health care for children. Children in families that participate in WIC also show higher academic achievement than similar children whose families did not participate.

We urge you to support the Senate-passed Fiscal Year 2026 Agricultural Appropriations bill, which fully funds WIC and preserves the popular cash value benefit (CVB) so that WIC participants can continue to purchase fruits and vegetables. Please support WIC— a lifeline for millions of hardworking families — in any short-or long-term spending bill.

Sincerely,

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