Republican Farm Bill Is A Toxic Handout for Polluters, A Sellout of Our Communities

Republican Farm Bill Is A Toxic Handout for Polluters, A Sellout of Our Communities

Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement following passage of House Republicans' Farm Bill (H.R. 7567):

"With grocery bills skyrocketing, House Republicans are taking food off the tables of seniors, veterans, kids, and working parents to pay for handouts to polluters and the corporate donors who keep their political careers afloat. They spent the last week in open disarray, twisting arms and cutting backroom deals to drag a deeply unpopular corporate giveaway across the finish line - and it's working families who will pay the price.

"Beyond the special interest subsidies and giveaways, this bill blocks communities, scientists, tribes, and small businesses from having input on major projects. Huge swaths of this bill were obviously written by industry lobbyists and rubber-stamped by a Republican majority that decided a long time ago that science is inconvenient and the public is a nuisance.

"I have fought this bill every step of the way and am standing with the families it starves, the rural communities it sells out, the firefighters it puts in harm's way, the tribes and other stakeholders it excludes, and the millions of Americans who understand that our public lands and our food assistance programs belong to all of us, not just the ultra-wealthy and well-connected."

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