Tom Vilsack: “The goal of this budget, frankly, is to invest in a stronger America, and to expand our middle class”

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

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.

There is no doubt that there are many, many, many working poor, working poor with an emphasis on working.

I think you two gentlemen have laid out a plan that addresses the fundamental weakness of our current farm policy.