Articles Tagged with ''budget cuts''

Setting the stage for ag carbon markets * Pandemic wiping out food security gains

The Assembly Appropriations Committee has passed a $7-billion climate resilience bond.

Water, highway bills high on House agenda * Liability issue on table

Managing lands fallowed by SGMA * Farm groups hail biotech rule, exporters alarmed * Trump presses liability protections

With an anticipated state budget deficit of $54 billion, the governor’s “May Revise” for his budget proposal was not going to bear much good news.

Legislators to Newsom: Stay the course on environmental regs * State Ag Board to host Newsom’s task force * Newsom directs agencies to cut spending now

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2017 - House appropriators passed spending bills last week for FY 2018, including budget proposals for USDA, EPA and the Energy Department (DOE).

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2017 - President Trump’s first full budget left few programs important to farmers untouched. The good thing for producers, rural communities and others who care about these programs is that this budget has no chance of surviving Congress.

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2017 - The Trump administration delivered its proposed fiscal 2018 budget to Congress Tuesday, outlining $28 billion in spending, a 6 percent drop from its 2017 spending plan. As expected, many members of Congress and other defenders of current federal programs targeted for major cuts reacted with outrage.