House Appropriators Wednesday passed a $25.9 billion annual spending measure that would trim agriculture programs in fiscal 2025 while steering them away from addressing climate change.
The Republican-written bill, passed on a partisan vote of 29 to 26, would cut agriculture and food safety funding by 1.35 percent, or $355 million, although individual programs would see much bigger swings — many negative but some with increases.
Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said the bill would roll back “ill-advised” priorities of the Biden administration, and Agriculture Subcommittee Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.) called the proposed reductions a response to high inflation demanding belt-tightening by government and families alike.
“They have to do more with less under the Biden economy,” Harris said.
