Tom Vilsack: “I appreciate your bringing this issue up, and I think you are absolutely right.”

It will if it is adequately funded.

If you take SNAP and you reduce it or you eliminate it, you are obviously going to impact not just the poor families that are receiving it.

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

Well, the House Agriculture appropriations talked about an 18 percent cut to our budget, so you can do the math.