Source: THE HILL, 7/23/20



Over the last two months, leading members of the agriculture committees in Congress have proposed using an obscure law, the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, to give the administration a permanent annual blank check of nearly $68 billion to spend on federal subsidies to farm businesses. The administration would be free to allocate the funds to programs that would not be developed or authorized by Congress. This means any president could use the funds to benefit special interest groups for political purposes.

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