Tom Vilsack: “I believe this budget basically lays a strong foundation for doing that.”

If you raise the minimum wage, you would reduce the SNAP population by a significant amount.

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

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

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.