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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, January 02, 2025
Senate Agriculture Committee Republicans criticized USDA’s “unilateral” increase to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and warned the rising costs could make it more difficult to make other needed changes to the farm bill, during the committee’s nutrition oversight hearing on Thursday morning.
The Congressional Budget Office is raising its cost estimate for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by $93 billion over the next 10 years, or about 8.4%, due in part to expected benefit recalculations authorized by the 2018 farm bill.
Congressional Republicans are weighing how to rein in the soaring cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and may use a recent GAO report to argue for restricting how USDA determines future updates.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., says she is not interested in making cuts to the nutrition title in the upcoming farm bill, but is open to reforms.
Ballooning cost estimates for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are likely to paint a bigger target on the farm bill’s nutrition title heading when lawmakers start drafting the bill in the next Congress.
House Republicans and Democrats on Thursday sparred over USDA nutrition programs at a hearing on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, highlighting partisan divides over funding for food assistance in the 2023 farm bill.
In this opinion piece, Stephanie K. Goodwin, Ph. D., with Danone North America and Anne MacMillan with Invariant discuss the importance of strategic dialogue across a diverse set of stakeholders to effectively address systemic problems and inequities in the food system.
More children experienced food insecurity in 2020 than in 2019, the Agriculture Department said in its annual report on household food security in the U.S. But nationwide, the overall rate remained steady despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
