If you're an azalea at the National Arboretum, you're in luck -- repugicans are looking out for you.
If you're a woman, infant or child, however, you're on your own.
Slipped into the FY 2012 agriculture appropriations bill is an unusual provision requiring
the National Arboretum to maintain a very specific portion of its azalea collection.
While azaleas are being carefully tended to, the bill would cut $832 million from a program that
provides food assistance to low-income mothers and children. The Center for Budget and Policy
Priorities estimates that the reduction could result in as many as 475,000 people being turned away
from the Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) if food prices continue to rise.
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