In the markup of its budget reconciliation bill, the biggest point of contention was a $300 billion whack to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 
Program. House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson made two points: SNAP is not working, and the farm safety net needs to be strengthened. “I assume my colleagues need reminding of contemporary farm bills, where farmers were stripped of billions in exchange for additional funds in nutrition or where nutrition saw a one percent decrease in the deficit reduction exercise of 2014, yet farmers had to face an astonishing 25 percent cut.” In her opening statement, Ranking Member Angie Craig said the Republicans on the committee should be ashamed. “The instruction to this committee was to find $230 billion in cuts to SNAP, but that wasn’t good enough for the extremists in your party, so tonight you’re cutting more,” said the Minnesota lawmaker. “You know a traditional farm bill is not a priority for your leadership. If it were, we would’ve seen it on the House floor in the last session of Congress. The cut you are proposing to SNAP tonight would be the largest rollback of an anti-hunger program in our nation’s history.”
