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House GOP budget cuts $10-Billion ag/nutrition
Jul 18, 2017, 17:24 PM
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The House Republican budget proposal, released today, calls for $10-Billion-dollars in spending cuts to ag programs in the next 10 years. It recommends curtailing spending on the SNAP nutrition program through state flexibility, but no details are provided. The $10-billion cut is much less than the initial proposal of cutting $70-Billion dollars from agriculture.
House Ag Committee Ranking member Colin Peterson issued a statement saying “singling out the SNAP program will kill the farm bill.”
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