What’s Really Inside the Final Budget Reconciliation Bill: A Breakdown of Food and Agriculture Provisions
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB, P.L. 119-21) into law. Spanning nearly 900 pages of legislative text, OBBB relies on draconian cuts to the American social safety net – including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – in order to fund an extension of 2017 tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit the wealthiest Americans.
While it is possible to cherry-pick certain provisions of OBBB that seem or may in fact be positive, the bill’s fundamental calculus – that it is ok to spite your neighbor if it puts you ahead – is deeply un-American. This is not who we are, or if it is who we are, it is not who we should be.
OBBB is antithetical to the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition’s (NSAC) vision for a better food …