Unfortunately, the bill has passed. Please find out how your Senators voted and how your Represenative voted, and use the form on this page to send them your reaction.
Federal farm politics have never been worse.
Earlier this year, Trump’s U.S. Department of Agriculture stopped payments on more than $20 billion appropriated by Congress for regenerative agriculture and local food purchasing programs.
Instead of a genuine Farm Bill, the Republican-led Congress is pushing Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which slashes hunger program funding to funnel more money to wealthy landowners and polluting factory farms that produce unhealthy junk food ingredients.
There may still be time to stop this!
But if the House passes the bill before our newsletter goes out, we’ll update the alert to include the news. You can find out how your representatives voted and we encourage you to tailor you messages accordingly, thanking those who voted no and urging accountability from those who voted yes.
To see if the House has voted on H.R.1 and how your Representative voted, go here.
Unfortunately, the Senate passed the bill on Tuesday. Find out how they voted here.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress To Say No to the “Big Beautiful Bill” and Reauthorize the Farm Bill!
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" would put even more money into the pockets of the richest landowners by:
- eliminating a current provision that restricts people with adjusted gross incomes of $900,000 or more from receiving certain USDA benefits,
- increase annual payment limits from $125,000 to $155,000 per person, another boon for rich "farming" families (they're not the ones doing the actual work), and
- enroll 30 million more acres in annual commodity payment programs for peanuts, cotton and rice, further entrenching this system where Members of Congress give away our tax dollars to their richest constituents in exchange for campaign contributions.
And, that's just counting farm subsidy payments. Another way Members of Congress enrich their landholding donors is through disaster relief. Last year, Congress set aside $30 billion in disaster aid for farmers. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins directed $10 billion of those funds to the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program. Plenty of actual farmers are still suffering from the floods and fires of 2024 and need help, including the small-scale, regenerative, and organic farmers who haven't been getting federal funds, but the rest of the money has yet to be dispersed.
Money for rich landowners is coming from a 30 percent reduction in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps). More than three million people will go without food and many millions more will receive much less help. Over the next 10 years, payments to the richest landowners will increase by $56.4 billion, while hungry people will receive $294.7 billion less.
Do the math and you can see that money robbed from hungry people is paying for more than farm subsidies. The reverse Robinhood is part of a larger heist.
The Big Beautiful Bill would make $1.1 trillion in health cuts, leaving 11.8 million people uninsured, to deliver lowered tax rates to the wealthy and bigger tax deductions to their hedge funds, while expanding military spending by $163 billion.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress To Say No to the “Big Beautiful Bill” and Reauthorize the Farm Bill!