Tom Vilsack: “It's primarily a software issue.”

this budget is at a critical point, at a transformational point, in my view, in rural America, and in agriculture.

if you authorize it, if Congress creates the opportunity for this, we will be more than happy to utilize that program.

What I am happy to do is work with the Members of this Committee and others to pass the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (117th Congress--H.R. 1603), which could have solved this problem, Congressman.

States know who the recipients are because they administer the SNAP Program, and they also know where the jobs are.