{"id":60286,"date":"2025-05-02T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainableagriculture.net\/?p=60286"},"modified":"2025-05-02T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:18:57","slug":"comment-proposed-usda-budget-undermines-farmers-and-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainableagriculture.net\/blog\/comment-proposed-usda-budget-undermines-farmers-and-rural-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: Proposed USDA Budget Undermines Farmers and Rural Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact: Laura Zaks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>press@sustainableagriculture.net<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tel. 347.563.6408<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Comment: Proposed USDA Budget Undermines Farmers and Rural Communities&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Washington, DC, May 2, 2025 <\/em>\u2013 Today, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) issued a statement in response to the Trump Administration\u2019s release of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf\">\u201cskinny\u201d budget<\/a> for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 discretionary funding. Based on the few details that are available, the Administration\u2019s proposal would seemingly slash the US Department of Agriculture\u2019s funding by over $4.5 billion in FY2026 alone, with deep cuts to Rural Development, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Farm Service Agency, among others. The following comment is attributable to <strong>Mike Lavender, NSAC Policy Director:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c<em>It\u2019s hard to imagine a more effective roadmap for undermining rural communities and the farmers, families, and individuals who call them home<\/em>. <em>Congress should reject the Administration\u2019s proposal and continue its work to craft a responsible, bipartisan FY2026 agriculture appropriations bill that invests in economic opportunity for agricultural communities nationwide.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>###<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>About the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition is a grassroots alliance that advocates for federal policy reform supporting the long-term social, economic, and environmental sustainability of agriculture, natural resources, and rural communities. Learn more: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainableagriculture.net\/\"><em>https:\/\/sustainableagriculture.net\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition press@sustainableagriculture.net Tel. 347.563.6408 Comment: Proposed USDA Budget Undermines Farmers and Rural Communities&nbsp; Washington, DC, May 2, 2025 \u2013 Today, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) issued a statement in response to the Trump Administration\u2019s release of its \u201cskinny\u201d budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 discretionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[195,166],"tags":[85,1821,65,68,1820,1147,132,231,618,1797,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-60286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-budget-appropriations","7":"category-press-releases","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-discretionary-funding","10":"tag-farm-service-agency","11":"tag-fsa","12":"tag-fy2026","13":"tag-national-resources-conservation-service","14":"tag-nrcs","15":"tag-rural-development","16":"tag-skinny-budget","17":"tag-trump-administration","18":"tag-usda","19":"entry","20":"clb-missing-post-thumbnail"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Comment: Proposed USDA Budget Undermines Farmers and Rural Communities - National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NSAC responded to the Trump Administration\u2019s release of its \u201cskinny\u201d budget for FY2026 discretionary funding. 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