Or as Obama calls it, protecting the base.
Via Daily Caller:
The White House threatened to veto the House farm bill Monday night, in part due to cuts to the food stamp program.
“The bill would reduce access to food assistance for struggling families and their children, does not contain sufficient commodity and crop insurance reforms, and does not provide funding for renewable energy, which is an important source of jobs and economic growth in rural communities across the country,” the White House said in a Statement of Administration Policy.
The House farm bill would cut about $2 billion annually from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or about 3 percent of the SNAP budget. The cost of SNAP has doubled since 2008 and quadrupled since 2001, reaching a cost of about $80 billion last year.