The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday proposed spending cuts across most of the Department of Agriculture in the next fiscal year, while softening some of the deeper reductions the Trump administration requested.
The spending bill released by the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee would trim discretionary spending on agriculture and food programs by 1.4 percent from this year’s level, to $26.3 billion.
Most of the funding, $22.5 billion, would be for USDA, with the remainder to related agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration.
“This legislation builds on the successful efforts of the Trump Administration to root out fraud, waste, and abuse, shrink the federal bureaucracy, and make USDA programs more farmer-friendly,” subcommittee Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.) said in a news release.
