Ahead of a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump on Thursday said Congress should keep a provision in the farm bill that would add work requirements to food-stamp recipients.

TRUMP BACKS HOUSE VERSION OF FARM BILL

Trump tweeted that when House and Senate lawmakers meet to reconcile the different versions of the farm bill, the work requirements that were in the House version but not the Senate’s should be left in.

A White House report estimates that extending work rules only to food-stamp recipients without children would affect 6.8 million people, and to those with children would affect another 28.8 million

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Trump’s statement that the “Senate should go to 51 votes” is a reiteration of his view that the upper chamber should do away with the filibuster.

HEADING TO PENNSYLVANIA

Trump was heading to Pennsylvania to campaign for Republican Rep. Lou Barletta in his bid to replace incumbent Democrat, Sen. Bob Casey, in a state the president carried in 2016. There hasn’t been much polling of late, but Casey enjoyed a 15-percentage-point lead in a June poll conducted by Suffolk University and the York Daily Record.

Trump also tweeted he was “bringing steel back in a very big way.” Shares of U.S. Steel X, -1.39% fell about 10% after issuing a third-quarter outlook below forecasts. The Pittsburgh-based steelmaker’s stock price is now negative for the year.

Trump’s official schedule showed a meeting with Sen. David Perdue, the Georgia Republican. Perdue has expressed concern about the Koch brothers’ recent attacks against Trump, and Trump in the morning took another swipe at the conservative fund-raising giants with a tweet.