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UPDATE ON CONGRESSIONAL, USDA'S LEADERS ON FARM BILL MEETING WITH PRES. TRUMP
May 14, 2018
POLITICO reports:
House Ag Chairman Mike Conaway, Senate Ag Chairman Pat Roberts and USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue were summoned to the White House Thursday to discuss farm bill progress with President Donald Trump.
Following the afternoon meeting, Conaway said that Trump is "a really strong proponent of the work requirements being improved in SNAP." He added that Trump "believes that work is a pathway to prosperity and that our program should help people get on that path and not trap them in some sort of public assistance program."
Despite some news reports, Trump didn't threaten to veto a farm bill if stricter work requirements weren't included, Conaway said. Rather, the president could use his Twitter pulpit to persuade.
"I asked him to use his prodigious social media array to help promote getting it out of the House -- and hopefully he will do that," Conaway said after the meeting wrapped.
Perdue weighs in: Perdue wasn't a believer that Trump had threatened to veto the farm bill, saying Thursday that "it's way too early in the process to talk about any kind of potential veto threats."
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