Liz Saville Roberts: “I can get worked up about entitlement programs. But this is not an entitlement program. This is the continuation of a…”

“I can get worked up about entitlement programs. But this is not an entitlement program. This is the continuation of a strong difference of opinion between our good friends in the Committee on Appropriations... But the difference in regard to the LEAP program and the EQUIP program here is that we pay for it. We paid for it out of farm programs payments, out of the CCC fund used by Agriculture that is in the mandatory spending category. That comes under the jurisdiction of the House Committee on Agriculture, and we are cutting those funds dramatically, and in addition to cutting those funds and meeting our budget responsibilities, we also cut them again to provide two vitally needed environmental programs, actually three, EQUIP, LEAP, and the conservation reserve program, and we pay for it.”