budget cuts

The Administration is rolling out its final budget request of President Trump’s first term, and the budget proposal looks very similar to the previous requests.  A key piece of Trump's proposal to lower federal spending by $4.4 trillion over the next decade.   To do...

New documents detailing President Trump’s budget request show significant cuts to the Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. The White House released the rest of its fiscal year 2020 budget proposal this week, and cited savings on salaries in the Economic Research Service as a way to cut spending, according to the Hagstrom Report.   A ...

After the Trump Administration released its 2020 fiscal year budget proposal last week, many in the Ag community were upset, and some angered regarding potential 5% cuts to USDA service and other Ag focused programs.  While he acknowledged that cuts of that size could hurt the Ag economy at a very bad time, Representative Dan Newhouse said last week’s proposal is not a final draft, and a lot of wo

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue will help President Trump reach his goal of reducing agency budgets by 5% next year.  Perdue has promised to cut his budget 5%, a week after Trump asked every Cabinet agency except the Pentagon to make a 5% cut.   ...

The chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations panel says there will be no budget cuts this fiscal year. North Dakota Republican John Hoeven says the current fiscal year is “too far along” to make an adjustment now, as requested by President Trump.   Th...