June 28, 2017

AgriPulse - Steve Davies 

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2017 - The House Appropriations Committee’s agriculture and energy subcommittees approved bills today that reject most of the cuts sought by President Trump.

The bill approved by the panel’s ag subcommittee would still cut discretionary spending at USDA, the Food and Drug Administration and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission by $876 million from fiscal 2017 levels. The $20 billion funding level was below what most subcommittee members would have liked, which prompted criticism of some specific cuts, but there also was an understanding that it could have been worse.

Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, thanked subcommittee Chairman Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., and Ranking Member Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., for “basically ignoring most of the cuts in the president’s budget. I appreciate that you’ve used reasonable numbers. I’m sorry that we have $876 million in cuts, but that’s a lot better” than the $4 billion reduction sought by the Trump Administration.

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