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Comment: NSAC Responds to House Agriculture Committee Budget Reconciliation Approval

Washington, DC, May 15, 2025 – Today, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) released the following statement attributable to Mike Lavender, NSAC Policy Director, in response to the House Agriculture Committee’s 29-25 party-line approval of budget reconciliation text that would remove more than $290 billion from the farm bill baseline.

“The House Agriculture Committee’s approval of budget reconciliation marks the end of a decades-long era in federal food and farm policy. The bill resorts to cannibalization, making unprecedented cuts to nutrition programs and mistaking increased farm subsidies as a panacea for farmers, our food system, and rural America. This choice willfully ignores the severe impacts these cuts will have on families and communities, and shatters the opportunity to pass a comprehensive farm bill. As a result, farm loans and capital access, rural development, food safety, conservation programming, the next generation of farmers and ranchers, domestic market opportunities, local and regional supply chains, and swaths of critical research are left to languish. The House of Representatives and Senate should reject this reconciliation bill – and promptly chart a course to a full, bipartisan five year farm bill.”

NSAC’s initial analysis of the reconciliation bill is here. Stay tuned to the NSAC blog for more analysis soon.

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