"This bill hurts American farmers, hungry families, and rural communities," said House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03). "This bill cuts grocery vouchers specifically for women, infants and children.",
I will keep fighting to protect food assistance for hungry families, including WIC grocery vouchers and related nutrition programs.
Occurrences
Evidence
“Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) introduced the Infant Formula Safety Modernization Act, comprehensive bipartisan legislation to modernize federal oversight of the nation’s infant formula supply and close longstanding gaps in testing, transparency, and regulatory enforcement.” The release also says the bill would expand required pathogen testing and mandate environmental testing in infant formula facilities.
USDA says WIC provides healthy foods, personalized nutrition education, breastfeeding support and referrals to other services to support families, and is available to pregnant, recently pregnant, and breastfeeding women plus babies and children under 5.
USDA explains that WIC grant levels for the current fiscal year are posted after an Agriculture appropriations bill is signed into law and updated quarterly and at fiscal year-end.
The USDA budget summary states: “The Budget includes $7.3 billion for WIC in 2026, continuing the longstanding bipartisan…”
The lapse plan says WIC has the ability to recover and reallocate unused grant award funds from the previous fiscal year and that limited FNS employees may be needed for programs funded through SNAP, CNP and WIC accounts during a lapse.
DeLauro urged Congress to pass her bipartisan Infant Formula Safety Modernization Act after a new infant formula recall and botulism cases.
USDA says WIC provides healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and referrals; eWIC works at approved grocery stores and farmers' markets.
USDA notes WIC grant levels are posted after an agriculture appropriations bill is signed and then updated quarterly.
Assessments
The record shows DeLauro actively worked on family-nutrition policy during the current term, including introducing and promoting bipartisan infant-formula safety legislation in 2026. That supports the 'keep fighting' part of the promise and shows real effort in the same child-and-family nutrition lane. But the evidence provided does not show that she directly secured a enacted protection for WIC grocery vouchers or other food-assistance funding, such as a completed appropriations or statutory outcome attributable to her. Under a federal office standard, that is partial credit for meaningful advocacy without proof of full delivery of the promised protection outcome.
The promise is broad and ongoing: to keep fighting to protect food assistance for hungry families, specifically including WIC and related nutrition programs. The evidence shows DeLauro took concrete action in the child nutrition policy area by introducing the Infant Formula Safety Modernization Act, which is relevant to maternal and infant nutrition support. However, the record provided does not show that she directly secured enacted protection, preservation, or expansion of WIC grocery vouchers or related nutrition program funding during the period at issue. The USDA materials confirm WIC’s existence and proposed funding context, but they do not establish a DeLauro-delivered outcome. Because the promise is framed as continuing advocacy rather than a single completed policy result, and because there is evidence of meaningful effort in the same policy lane without proof of full delivery on WIC protections themselves, partial credit is the best fit.