President Joe Biden said he would veto Senate Republican efforts to overturn Department of Agriculture rules it says will protect LGBT people from discrimination in federally funded nutrition programs.

"No person in need of help should be turned away from a food bank or denied nutrition assistance just because of who they are or who they love," the White House's Office of Management and Budget wrote in a statement on Thursday. "Like many Americans, LGBTQI+ households often turn to federal nutrition programs like SNAP when they experience food insecurity. In fact, federal research shows that households with an LGBTQI+ member are more likely to report food insecurity compared to non-LGBTQI+ households."

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Senate Joint Resolution 4 was introduced by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and disapproves of Food and Nutrition Service program rules regarding how to make complaints concerning allegations of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The rules were drafted in response to the Supreme Court's 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County.

"This legislation would mean that needy people — including children who may go hungry — could be denied food and food assistance simply because of who they are or who they love," the White House said. "That is discrimination and it is wrong."

"If Congress were to pass this joint resolution, the president would veto it," it added.

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) amplified the White House's criticism of Marshall's measure, saying he could not "believe that this resolution is even real."

"This makes it possible for some random lunch lady to deny lunch to a hungry child because she says her God tells her to. School lunch should be free, and certainly free of judgment," he said. “Don’t we have better things to do in the upper chamber than picking on kids because of who they are?”