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House Ag Budget Not Aligned with Trump Proposal

House Agriculture Appropriators have ignored many of President Trump’s proposed fiscal year 2018 spending cuts to the Department of Agriculture, advancing a bill to full committee, with bipartisan support.
 
The president’s request cut USDA funding by 21 percent, zeroing out many programs. The $145 billion House subcommittee bill cuts spending for USDA and the Food And Drug Administration by just five percent from current levels.
 
Ag Appropriations Chair Robert Aderholt…
 
            
 
Meanwhile, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is still cut by almost 5-billion to 74-billion, but an amount that meets SNAP enrollment and Democrats can live with.
 
Top subcommittee Democrat Sanford Bishop on the overall package…
 
 
Other Trump cuts Aderholt and Republicans restored…
 
 
The House subcommittee would also protect county FSA offices and ag research facilities…
 
 
 
There’s $2.8 billion in the bill for ag research, more than $900 million for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and about the same for conservation programs. The bill includes just over $1 billion for food safety and inspection, and continued funding for international food aid programs the president ‘zeroed out.’

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