House Appropriations Committee Republicans released the draft fiscal year 2026 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. This bill increases costs for rural communities and cuts funding for programs that support farmers and help hardworking people feed their families.
For 2026, the bill provides $25.5 billion in discretionary funding, $1.2 billion, or 4.4 percent, below 2025. The legislation:
- Increases costs for farmers and rural communities bycutting critical investments including direct loans to help hardworking Americans buy homes in rural areas, water and waste grants to help the poorest communities get safer water services, and energy savings programs that support farmers and rural small businesses. Republicans are also cutting funding that helps low- and very low-income rural homeowners repair their homes.
- Hurts farmers by cutting the support system that helps them access government resources they are promised.
- Threatens access to food for hardworking and vulnerable Americans by not providing the full fruit and vegetable benefit to USDA's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) recipients.
- Slashes Food for Peace to the lowest level since 2002 while the administration continues to illegally withhold international food assistance, taking food from the mouths of children and hungry people around the world.
Source : house.gov