The Emergency Food Assistance Program, or TEFAP, was established to provide emergency food assistance to low-income individuals.

We are facing, in this country, also, not just a hunger crisis but a nutrition crisis.

From my point of view, you know, we are living in the richest country in the world, and our level of childhood poverty is criminal.

It is outrageous that people who have drug convictions cannot get SNAP.

We reduced hunger in the United States by 30 percent, and we did not add a single bureaucrat to the Federal Government to do it.

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.

To see people who blew up this deficit so that the wealthiest people in America could have tax cuts... that makes no sense to me.

We are facing, in this country, also, not just a hunger crisis but a nutrition crisis.

I look forward to working with Chairman Fetterman to find bipartisan solutions.

I am concerned about proposals to limit this.