WisDems: Van Orden backs $27 billion cut to food assistance

MADISON, Wis. — Today, Derrick Van Orden and the House Agriculture Committee meet to take up the Republican draft of the Farm Bill, legislation which makes the largest cut to SNAP food assistance in nearly 30 years. The House GOP’s Farm Bill draft would cut $27 billion from SNAP over the next ten years by limiting the authority of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make adjustments to the Thrif...