Tom Vilsack: “It is time we invest in the farmers of the Midwest instead of the oil cartels of the Mideast.”

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.

There is not enough money in that program.

It’s very direct, and I think it speaks significantly and centrally to the challenges that many Iowa farmers face today.

If those budget cuts, even the most conservative budget cut, that is to say, putting it back to levels of several years ago, would result, not in an increase in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)…