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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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Comment: Partisan Senate Reconciliation Bill Ends Decades-Long Era

Washington, DC, June 12, 2025 – The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) issued the following comment, attributable to Mike Lavender, NSAC Policy Director, in response to the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee’s title of the Senate’s budget reconciliation bill released on Wednesday evening. 

“The story of the Senate reconciliation bill boils down to willful complicity in the death of a full farm bill. The bill delivers hundreds of billions in cuts that will deepen hunger and threaten farmer livelihoods in order to dramatically increase the federal deficit through tax cuts and subsidies available to a select few. A vote for this bill is not a vote for farmers – it’s a vote to abandon them. The Senate bill – which mimics the House version with only minor exceptions – excludes hundreds of programs that support farmers and the communities they call home. Farmers and their communities are not a monolith, and the Senate’s exclusion of farm loans, rural development, new market opportunities, research, and more makes painfully clear a fundamental misunderstanding of rural communities.”

See NSAC’s recent blog post for details on the House Agriculture Committee’s reconciliation bill.

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