Norcross Votes Against GOP Farm Bill that Cuts Vital Food Assistance

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) voted against the Republican’s Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 (H.R. 2), also known as the Farm Bill.

“It’s outrageous and immoral to cut programs that help feed our nation’s children,” said Congressman Norcross. “With around 57,000 children struggling to get enough food in South Jersey, it’s clear we shouldn’t be cutting SNAP benefits and should be raising wages so working men and women can buy groceries and feed their children.”

Instead of coming together in a bipartisan fashion to help hungry families and tackle the unique challenges facing America’s family farms, the GOP today revived the same bill that:

• Reduces $23 billion in SNAP benefits that children, seniors, students, 1.5 million veterans, 23,000 service members, individuals with disabilities and working families rely on to keep from going hungry.
• Slashes hundreds of millions of dollars from job-creating energy infrastructure initiatives and loan guarantees for small businesses.
• Eliminates the Conservation Stewardship program, which means hundreds of millions of dollars will no longer be available to protect our environment.

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