D.C. Memo: WIC at risk; Dean Phillips in hot water over Kamala Harris comments

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D.C. Memo: WIC at risk; Dean Phillips in hot water over Kamala Harris comments

WASHINGTON — Legislation Congress approved to avoid government shutdown before lawmakers left town for their Thanksgiving break fails to provide extra money advocates say is needed for a key nutrition program. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant women, new mothers and infan…