Tom Vilsack: “I think that was an important beginning first step in the process.”

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

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.