"The Donald Trump administration will use tariff revenue to prevent a special nutrition program for pregnant women and mothers of young children from running out of money during the government shutdown. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children would otherwise run out of backup money for its six million beneficiaries sometime in the coming days, according to advocates for the program."
""At the risk of sounding alarmist, this sounds like another nail in the coffin for Article I," Daniel Bunn, president of the conservative Tax Foundation, said on social media, referring to the part of the Constitution establishing the legislative branch of government. "If [the Supreme Court] doesn't act to limit the President's tariff powers, and the President can just ignore the expired spending legislation, then why do you need Congress?""
The Trump administration will use Section 232 tariff revenue to prevent the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) from exhausting its backup funds during the government shutdown. WIC serves about six million beneficiaries and would otherwise run out of funds in the coming days. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt framed the transfer as a creative solution that protects impoverished mothers and babies and blamed Democratic actions for the shortfall. Tax Foundation president Daniel Bunn warned that using tariff revenue to continue program spending raises constitutional concerns about executive overreach and the need for judicial limits on presidential tariff authority.
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