Appropriations

FY2014 Agriculture Appropriations Update:

On Thursday, March 21st, the House passed a stopgap spending bill (H.R. 933), previously passed by the Senate, to fund the government through the remainder of FY2013. The bill includes provisions from five full-year spending bills, including Agriculture. It keeps existing spending caps in place and does not replace the sequester (which went into effect March 1). While still subject to the sequester, it is likely that WIC will be able to manage through the rest of the fiscal year without cutting any participants due to the new funding allocation, WIC contingency funds, unspent SNAP transfer funds carried over from the previous year, and unspent recovered funds available for reallocation.