Rep. Roy and Sen. Grassley call on congressional leadership to pass an improved farm bill

WASHINGTON, DC — Representative Chip Roy (R-TX-21) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) called on Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker Mike Johnson, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to pass a comprehensive and improved farm bill that makes conservative reforms, while maintaining a responsible safety net for our nation’s farmers and ranchers.

The legislators wrote,“The Biden administration and its reckless spending have led us to this place of record inflation. By making conservative reforms to key programs we will be able to tame inflation while also keeping in place a responsible safety net for families and farmers.”

The lawmakers outlined key areas of improvement including reducing spending in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to pre-pandemic levels, and stopping the abuse of the U.S. Department of Agriculture fund known as the Commodity Credit Corporation.

The two also point out that protecting our food supply is critical to our national security, which means that the farm bill should prohibit our adversaries like China, Iran, Russia and North Korea from buying American farmland.

“We implore you to recognize the urgent need to pass a farm bill that addresses the record inflation that our constituents have seen and foreign threats to our food supply. While there are other reforms we should consider, by passing these common-sense reforms, we can lower inflation, reduce our deficit, maintain a farm and family safety net, and promote our national security,”Representative Roy and Senator Grassley said.

Read the full text of the letter here.

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