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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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Comment: NSAC Responds to House Subcommittee Markup of FY 2023 Agriculture Spending Bill

Washington, DC, June 15, 2022 – Today, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) issued the following comment, attributable to NSAC Policy Director, Eric Deeble, in response to the House Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies markup of their fiscal year (FY) 2023 Agriculture Appropriations bill. Overall, the bill provides $ 27.2 billion in funding, an increase of 8 percent from FY 2022, and includes a total of $ 195 billion for discretionary programs funded on an annual basis and mandatory programs.

“The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) applauds the House Subcommittee for advancing a bill that invests in conservation programs and technical assistance that are essential for the

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What’s in the President’s Budget Request for Sustainable Agriculture?

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The Biden-Harris Administration released the President’s Budget Request (PBR) for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 on March 28, 2022. The $ 5.8 trillion budget request comes several months late, as the budget request is typically expected to be presented to Congress on the first Monday of February. Yet this budget represents an improvement relative to the PBR FY 2022 timeline, which was issued on May 28th, 2021, due to the previous Administration’s refusal to concede the 2022 election. The detailed proposal for FY 2023 (October 1, 2022 – September 30, 2023) includes the President’s discretionary spending plans and builds on the PBR FY 2022 but does stray from the spending priorities put forward in that document in ways that are discussed in detail below.

The $ 5.8 trillion in proposed spending includes $ 1.6 trillion in domestic spending – a …

Inside the FY22 Appropriations Package: Wins for Sustainable Agriculture

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Increased funding for research is a notable win for sustainable agriculture in the FY22 appropriations bill

On March 15th President Biden signed H.R. 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, also known as the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Omnibus, after significant delays in the appropriations process. These delays resulted in three previous stopgap funding bills to keep the government running in the meantime, known as Continuing Resolutions (CR). The omnibus provides funding through FY 2022, which started on October 1, 2021, and ends in September 2022. In the interim, the federal government was operating on a series of CRs that kept government funding at FY 2021 levels.

In this blog post, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) examines the content of the FY 2022 agriculture appropriations bill and how NSAC’s appropriations priorities fared in the process.