House Democrats Highlight Republican Hypocrisy in Agriculture-Rural Development-FDA Funding Bill

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"The ink is barely dry on the debt limit agreement, House Republicans are already reneging on the agreement. The 2024 Agriculture bill brings us back to 2007 and abandons rural America, slashing WIC by $800 million, cutting the Renewable Energy for America Program by $500 million, gutting rural electric investment in clear energy and energy efficiency by $1 billion, and eliminating loans that serve as a financial lifeline that has already helped more than 20,000 distressed farmers. This bill does nothing to address the shortages that have forced doctors around the country to choose which patients are more deserving of life-saving chemotherapy drugs than others. In short, this bill exemplifies Republican values: taking food out of the mouths of hungry people, creating hurdles for women to access medication, raising energy costs for rural Americans, and making it harder for small farmers to make ends meet -- while at the same time tipping the scale in favor of big corporations and protecting big tobacco. This is a harmful bill that is completely detached from reality and has no chance of becoming law."

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