Farm Programs, USDA Would Shrink Under Project 2025 Goals for Ag

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July 19, 2024 | Source: Investigate Midwest | by Chris Clayton

Could Project 2025 derail the farm bill? Or could it possibly accelerate efforts to get a farm bill passed if it looks like former President Donald Trump will win the White House again?

Democrats have ramped up criticism of Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project, an effort driven by the Heritage Foundation to lay out an agenda for Trump if he wins the presidency. The report has been out there for months, but liberals are now attacking it so much that Trump now claims he has nothing to do with it.

For agriculture, Project 2025 calls on the White House to use the “bully pulpit” to demand genuine reforms to farm programs.

The agricultural chapter also reads like a Republican Study Committee budget recommendation, which calls for similar cuts farm programs.

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