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The farm bill, which governs nutrition, agriculture, and conservation policy, is up for renewal again, and the negotiations in Congress have hit a familiar road block: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, an anti-hunger program used by millions of low-income Americans. House Republicans and Senate Democrats have introduced competing versions of the bill, and they differ significantly when it comes to the so-called nutrition title, which includes funding for SNAP. That has prompted an increasingly nasty partisan fight—with expletives and all—in which Democrats accuse Republicans of cutting benefits for needy American, while Republicans accuse Democrats of distorting the truth about the GOP bill.