{"id":302592,"date":"2025-10-14T12:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/302592\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:21:10","slug":"federal-shutdown-threatens-access-to-nutrition-assistance-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/302592\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal shutdown threatens access to nutrition assistance \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cFederal government shutdown grinds into week two as tempers flare at the Capitol\u201d (Oct. 8): The shutdown is disrupting critical services including the Women, Infants and Children nutritional assistance program. Here in San Diego County, 100,000 women and children under the age of 5 depend on this program, but for how long? Funding is set to run out in less than two weeks. Communities are feeling the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>I call on our local congressional delegation to reverse the harm by restoring funding for this and other nutrition programs. It\u2019s time to prioritize people over politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michele Lagoy, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cFederal government shutdown grinds into week two as tempers flare at the Capitol\u201d (Oct. 8): The shutdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":302593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-302592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115372496248926352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}