I appreciate your leadership, and Senator Braun's, with the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
The idea that we would be threatening to blow up our credit rating over the school lunch program or over SNAP does not make any sense to me.
Protecting SNAP and preventing fraud is not a Republican or a Democratic issue, though. I think everyone agrees on that.
Each and every one of those people are Americans, and they should have the same access to vital programs like this.
I think whenever we entertain any of this we have got to make sure that we are getting value out of whatever we are proposing.
Food banks are really critical for the support and foundation of SNAP.
SNAP has work requirements. As Senator Braun said, general work requirements have been a law since 1977.
We are facing, in this country, also, not just a hunger crisis but a nutrition crisis.
our nutrition programs in the farm bill provide a modest but incredibly important support for Americans who need to put food on their tables...
SNAP is great. It needs to become a nutrition program.
It is outrageous that people who have drug convictions cannot get SNAP.