STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Amid this and other controversies, lawmakers are still trying to set federal policies. The Senate is debating a farm bill.
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
It includes farm and food subsidies totaling almost $100 billion. Lawmakers have trimmed more than $2 billion in annual farm spending.
INSKEEP: The question, though, is whether to trim more, and that leads to one of those moments that complicates easy partisan narratives.
GREENE: Because in this case, it is President Obama urging less spending. He wants to cut a farm insurance program, saying it subsidizes big businesses. Many senators from farm states want to maintain or even expand it. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.