(NAFB.com) – The House Agriculture Committee voted along party lines 29-25 to advance legislation that would cut as much as $300 billion in food aid spending to pay for Republicans’ domestic policy megabill and some farm bill programs. Politico says the vote sends the measure to the House Budget Committee for consideration before a full floor vote on the bill in the chamber. “The GOP proposal would create the largest overhaul in decades to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by forcing states to share the cost of SNAP benefits,” Politico said. Republicans exceeded the Ways and Means Committee’s target of $230 billion in spending cuts to get enough room to include a $60 billion farm bill package in the megabill, a critical incentive for passing the legislation. Under the bill, the individual limit for commodity program payments would rise, as would funding for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program.
