Tom Vilsack: “We will work very hard to advance the notion of food security worldwide based on the principles of expanding the…”

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

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.

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