The "Harvest Box" proposal, though, is a new kind of horrendous.
The Department of Agriculture wants to dock about half of that money and replace it with an "America's Harvest box," consisting of "100 percent U.S.-grown and produced food".
British Food Fortnight began yesterday and a "Bring Home the Harvest" campaign has been launched, calling for schools and youth groups to create a harvest box of fresh fruit and vegetables (ideally that the children have grown themselves) as well as a selection of local produce.
The Harvest Box concept might not have much chance of moving forward in Congress, and Trump administration officials have suggested it was really meant to rile up liberals.
Food security experts are urging advocates to focus less on the Harvest Box proposal and more on the bigger issue: the steep cuts to SNAP.
Under the Trump administration's proposed program, households getting more than $90 per month in SNAP benefits would receive a portion of those benefits in the form of a food package, dubbed the "Harvest Box".
"I worry that all the attention to the Harvest Box distracts from the fact that this administration has proposed to shrink SNAP," said Stacy Dean, vice president for food assistance policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Native Americans also have a greater chance of developing diabetes than any other racial group in the U.S. The Trump proposal listed a number of foods that a standard Harvest Box would include such as peanut butter, shelf-stable milk, beans and pasta.
