Jim McGovern

But to fix this, I assume it will cost money.

SNAP cannot be an ATM machine for other priorities.

President Trump's budget is reckless, and in my opinion, if it ever gets enacted, is heartless.

It helps to alleviate poverty, promote long-term health, and lessen hunger in communities all across this country.

What baffles me about the White House proposal is it attempts to gut a program that is working.

Helping farmers feed their families and have enough to sell on the local market will help their communities thrive.

The President's budget, in case you forgot, cuts SNAP; our nation's first line of defense against hunger, by $193 billion.

We are all for moving ahead with new advancements and technology. We want the experience for those who are the clients to be better, and we certainly do not want to have people show up at grocery stores and be told we can't take your card…

I don't think that these innovations would have been possible without investment from the USDA, and without a very large budget to invest.

Yes, that is obviously unacceptable. Typically we have people who are on SNAP who are working, who have families, who are trying to juggle a million different things.

So the McGovern-Dole Program is a really smart and important program.

It projects soft power around the world for the United States.

I tell people all the time that hunger is a political condition. We can eliminate it.

It is heartless. It is reckless. It is self-defeating, and it is stupid.

I just have this kind of radical idea that that kind of stuff is good for us.

For the first time in history, the President of the United States is openly calling for the elimination of Food for Peace and McGovern-Dole.

We owe them a debt of gratitude for their service, not the casual slander we often see in food aid reform debates.

World Vision joins with our partners and strongly opposes these recommendations, which propose eliminating and/or severely cutting effective, life-saving funding that help create a safer and more secure world.

We seek to work with this Committee to ensure expeditious and effective implementation of the additional funding, especially the resources directly appropriated to Food for Peace.

$990 million in emergency famine relief, including $300 million for Food for Peace in war-torn South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria, was recently included in the FY17 omnibus bill.

Extreme poverty and hunger leads to chaos and war and conflict. This is where terrorists go to find recruits.

This is the face of five little girls eating lunch, or breakfast, at a McGovern-Dole program site.

It promotes peace and stability.

The potential for job growth over the next decade in the U.S. agribusiness and farm growth is very clear.

There should be no shame in using taxpayer dollars to buy American food from American farmers to send overseas.