The nutrition program is restrictive by design, but updates to the food package are giving parents and kids more options.
While the White House is asking for more money for the Women, Infants, and Children program, a House bill would reduce WIC funds.
Advocates for everything from nutrition programs to tribal food sovereignty to climate and sustainability initiatives will be keeping an eye on the bill next year.
Potato growers want the WIC program to include potatoes as an approved vegetable.
