Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 6/21/18

A White House plan to reorganize the federal government is expected to be out as early as today, POLITICO's Lorraine Woellert and Helena scooped on Wednesday.

The proposal will recommend renaming the agency now called Health and Human Services to the Department of Health and Public Welfare. As POLITICO reported earlier this month, it will also call for moving the $70 billion Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from USDA to the reorganized agency, according to two people with knowledge of the plan.

Reality check: Moving the food stamp program from USDA to HHS — an idea that's not likely to get traction in Congress—would be a huge blow to USDA's reach and budget. SNAP represents roughly three quarters of its budget.

"I'll need to see the logic": Conaway said late Wednesday he would keep an open mind when reading the White House reorganization report, but he's not wild about making HHS, which already oversees some $1 trillion in spending, even bigger.

"I'll need to see the logic behind why it makes sense to make an even larger agency out of one that's got its issues already," he said. "My normal bias is that making monster agencies even bigger is maybe not the best thing to do,"