Dept. of Agriculture

Repeal, or, at minimum, reform the Dietary Guidelines .

Nota: HHS announced new dietary guidelines w/ emphasis on meat and dairy.

Roll back the updates to the Thrifty Food Plan that is used to calculate SNAP benefits.

Nota: Enacted as part of reconciliation bill.

Impose stricter work requirements on SNAP.

Nota: Enacted as part of reconciliation bill.

Restrict the Low-Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).

Nota: All staff at LIHEAP fired (one later rehired), reconciliation bill severely limits program.

Remove the U.S. from association with U.N. or other efforts to push sustainable food production.

Nota: Trump terminated funding to the UN World Food Program, part of the Sustainable Development Goals program.

Reinstate Trump's executive order to manage wildfires by reducing vegetation and increasing logging.

Repeal market development programs like the Market Access Program.

Nota: USDA cancelled the Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program.

Eliminate the Community Eligibility Provision.

Weaken regulations on baby formula.

Reduce the premium subsidy rate for crop insurance.

Limit the USDA's ability to create permanent easements.

Repeal the federal mandate to label genetically engineered food.

Repeal the federal sugar program.

Eliminate the Conservation Reserve Program.

Prohibit schools from grouping together to utilize the Community Eligibility Provision.

Move the USDA food and nutrition programs (including SNAP) to HHS.

End broad-based categorical eligibility for SNAP.