Cuts to Food Aid Spending Draw Ire in Budget Talks: Farm Brief

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As House Republican lawmakers shuffled out of a closed-door Tuesday morning meeting with Agriculture Committee Chair GT Thompson (R-Pa.), one thing was clear: a plan to roll back hundreds of billions in spending from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program remains very much in flux.

Panel members are still working to formalize how exactly to achieve $230 billion in cuts that will help pay for a package of budget priorities ...