Trump Will Use Tariff Revenue to Cover WIC Food Program
“The Trump White House will not allow impoverished mothers and their babies to go hungry because of the Democrats’ political games.”
President Donald Trump announced he will use tariff revenue to cover the Women & Infants, and Children Food Program (WIC) during the Schumer Shutdown.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X:
The Democrats are so cruel in their continual votes to shut down the government that they forced the WIC program for the most vulnerable women and children to run out this week.
Thankfully, President Trump and the White House have identified a creative solution to transfer resources from Section 232 tariff revenue to this critical program.
The Trump White House will not allow impoverished mothers and their babies to go hungry because of the Democrats’ political games.
The Democrats are so cruel in their continual votes to shut down the government that they forced the WIC program for the most vulnerable women and children to run out this week.
Thankfully, President Trump and the White House have identified a creative solution to transfer… https://t.co/tj9Xt7f4yQ
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) October 7, 2025
WIC faced money loss due to the government shutdown.
CNN mentioned that the tariffs land in a “general fund managed by the Treasury Department.”
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The MSM might never mention this
Might? There is no might! They will NEVER mention this because they are nothing more than the propoganda arm of the democrat party 🤬🤬
This is all such a game. I get the visuals on this move, but still. 41% of America’s infants receive WIC. Interesting, as Spock might say. 100 million people receive government assistance. These big numbers are not a sign of a healthy republic.
Depends on the nature of the assistance surely? If there’s generic aid for kids, that doesn’t mean the kids need it, it means their parents get to claim it whether they’re billionaires or paupers, whether their kids are healthy, obese, or malnourished etc.
Are you familiar with WIC? It’s one of the few programs that has fairly sensible restrictions. The foods allowed have to be provide essential nutrients, particularly to young children. And not everyone can claim it. WIC isn’t like using EBT to buy lobster and steak. It’s not perfect, but I would take aim at other more exploitable systems.
It’s means-tested, but the usage aligns pretty well with the roughly 40-45% who don’t pay federal income taxes (so much for ‘FAIR SHARE!!!’).
There are also LOTS of anchor babies and illegitimate children of US mothers and illegal baby-daddies who are a drain on this program.
Ultimately this is just another prog program where they’re desperate to get more than half the populate locked onto the govt teat so they can control them and gave their perpetual vote.
Define ‘govt assistance’. I’d argue that the EITC and child tax credits are ‘gov’t assistance’. I’d cut those alongside the rest of govt boondoggles.
There’s plenty of folks on the center/right who’d fight tooth and nail to preserve ‘their’ tax break and/or refundable tax credit. That’s one reason the bar is so high to get to a simple flat income tax on every taxpayer with a single standard deduction and only individual tax filing. Set it at 18% with a $15K standard deduction. Eliminate separate SSA/Medicare tax bringing both programs ‘on budget’. Eliminate separate ‘cap gain’ tax and treat the ‘gain’ or ‘loss’ as income subject to same standard deduction. Eliminate estate tax and grant a $3 Million lifetime limit deduction for any inheritance/gift with the overage taxed as income.
Cancel cash based EBT/WIC. Replace with food baskets to be picked up every other week on Saturday/Sunday at whatever local public school folks are zoned to. Provide every public school student free breakfast, lunch and a take home brown bag. Ends stigma, gets ‘healthier’ food to the school age children and mitigates most fraud.
That would be simple and fair.
Wic isn’t cash based. It’s product based. Go to the grocery store and get X ounces of milk in approved brands. Get Y cans of beans in approved brands and sizes.
True for WIC but not EBT. My proposal takes both programs to an:
1. In kind basis
2. In person direct pick up biweekly requirement
This does several things.
1. Makes spending go further via volume
2. Mitigation of vender fraud b/c they are removed.
3. Mitigation of recipient selling benefit cards b/c there won’t exist. Just Star ID to verify recipient at pick up.
Combined with universal school lunches for K-12 there’s considerable cost savings for feeding under 18 population eligible for these programs and it makes all food assistance programs in kjnd.
If Trump can do this, it’s a very clever idea!
It’s a brilliant bit of political judo.
Dems say this is wrong as its a form of
welfare
“The Trump White House will not allow impoverished mothers and their babies to go hungry because of the Democrats’ political games.”
I get it. It’s good political theater, effective messaging: Trumpworld good; wicked dems bad.
But I’d rather Trump pay the military, – you know, its constitutional obligation.
Let husbands, extended families, food pantries, churches, etc. feed hungry moms and their kids. The federal govt. should never engage in ‘Grand Inquisitor’ cosplay.
Pay the military first. It’s a constitutional obligation.
Smart politics for Trump. Indeed for any politician. WIC is one of those emotional spending programs that few would dare to oppose. Such are the realities of living in a social democracy. Never mind how to pay. Trump gives us yet another gimmick to cope with out of control spending. We spend (approximately) $7 trillion on revenue of $5 trillion. Few understand the bigness of a trillion. Millions, billions, trillions– just words to most people. Is a billion seconds a long time? Comprehendible. A billion seconds would take us back to Jan, 1994. But a trillion seconds takes us back to nearly 30,000 BC. Way before civilization or even recorded history. Combine the bigness of a trillion with the consequences of compound interest, and you break the economy.