Kentucky mothers and their children will be negatively impacted by a government shutdown.

That's according to the White House, which says funding could expire within days of a shutdown for the nutrition program for women, infants and children, also known as work.

It provides nutritional aid to nearly 7 million low income pregnant women and children up to age five.

Nearly 120,000 Kentuckians receive work, and most of them are infants and children.

The U.S. government appears headed toward a shutdown as Congress struggles to agree on a spending plan for the new federal fiscal year that starts Sunday.

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Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky says as the U.S. braces for a government shutdown, U.S. money is still headed to Ukraine, something he continues to criticize.

Here's Senator Paul last night on the Fox News Channel.

To add insult to injury.

If there's a shutdown, us government workers will not be paid, but Ukrainian workers will be paid by the U.S. taxpayer.

There's nothing in the constitution that allows for spending like this to another country.

The spending clause in our constitution says that Congress can spend according to its enumerated powers, the powers given to it by the Constitution and also for the general welfare.

So it's illegal for the U.S. government if they wanted to give $100 billion to my state of Kentucky.

They can't do it.

That would violate the general welfare clause.

What do you think it violates to send it to another country?

Our framers never imagined in their worst nightmare that we would send that much money overseas.

Senator Paul's position puts him at odds with his Kentucky colleague and fellow Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who says the money the U.S. is spending in Ukraine is helping to destroy one of America's global enemies.

Without putting any American lives at risk.