The Administration's budget, which proposes a 20 percent cut to crop insurance, as well as an attack upon crop insurance last fall during the negotiation of the bipartisan budget agreement, are not helpful.
Critiques the Administration's proposed cuts to crop insurance.
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I want American farmers participating in this, and American people support these programs in large part because they think it is American-grown products that are being used over there.
It is critical and absolutely crucial that food assistance and agriculture development efforts focus on building resilience.
I am all for that, but just to have an open-ended check I don't think is necessarily a good idea.
We need to make sure that people that are unemployed, people that are having a tough time, have enough food to take care of their kids.
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