EWG testimony for the record to the House Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry of the House Agriculture Committee

Don’t call it a budget bill. Call it the cruelest farm bill ever. The House budget bill will make it easier for wealthy farmers to receive farm subsidies and harder for poor people to receive anti...

Farm subsidies already favor the largest farms. But the budget reconciliation bill the House will consider this week is packed with farm subsidy loopholes that would make the problem worse. 

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Almost 80,000 “city slickers” living in some of the biggest metro areas in the U.S. took in more than $2 billion in farm subsidies between 2020 and 2024. Many recipients used loopholes that allow the...