The U.S. House Committee on Agriculture recently voted to cut more than $16 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), an investment that allocates 47 percent of funding to U.S. children. This vote, on the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (commonly referred to as the Farm Bill) follows a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate that rejected these egregious cuts to the SNAP program and the 20 million kids it serves, calling into question the long-term viability of the House proposal.
