Supplemental farm disaster payments, rural recovery tools, emergency food assistance, and SNAP backstop funding.
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“USDA should be able to spend emergency food assistance money during and after a government shutdown, and federal workers or contractors needed to move and distribute food should be allowed to keep working.”
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“Most 2018 farm bill programs should keep running through September 30, 2025, and the commodity program rules used for 2024 crops should also apply to 2025 crops.”
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“USDA should pay farmers and ranchers for 2023 and 2024 disaster losses to crops, trees, vines, and livestock, and should also make one-time 2024 crop payments based on acreage and calculated economic losses.”
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“Emergency food assistance money should stay available until USDA fully spends it, instead of expiring at the end of a budget year.”
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“Emergency food assistance authority should count as starting on September 30, 2025, so it can cover qualifying SNAP funding gaps or emergency food costs that began at the fiscal-year deadline.”
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“USDA should fund repairs to rural lands, forests, watersheds, facilities, and food-aid infrastructure after disasters, and should be able to use loans, grants, guarantees, agreements, and some waivers when ordinary rural aid limits do not fit.”
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“The Agriculture Secretary should be able to start using emergency food assistance money after determining that USDA does not have enough budget authority to pay all eligible households their full SNAP benefits on time.”
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