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House Ag leaders oppose USDA cuts in Trump budget
The chairman of the U.S. House Agriculture committee, Mike Conaway of Texas, says he’s concerned that President Trump’s proposed budget cuts to the Department of Agriculture “could hamper some vital work of the Department.”
The ranking member, Collin Peterson of Minnesota, says in a statement that President Trump’s budget proposal that includes a 21% cut to the USDA’s budget shows “a lack of understanding of farm programs and their impact on rural America.” Peterson says water and wastewater loan grant programs are the only ways for small rural communities to update their water systems – and in the 2018 Budget Request, are “wrongly portrayed” as being duplicate programs.
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