Section 3 · The General Welfare
🌾Ch. 10 — Department of Agriculture
USDA · 15 tracked
Issue EO rejecting climate-first food-system transformation; scrub USDA materials
Proposed
Mandate’s top priority is defending American agriculture against Biden food-system transformation: denounce climate-over-productivity framing, leave U.N. sustainable-food schemes, announce principles by EO, remove transformation language from USDA sites, and review imposed practices.
Stop using CCC Charter Act §5 discretionary spending; seek repeal
Proposed
Mandate says USDA should refrain from §5 discretionary CCC spending and Congress should repeal or tightly limit that authority as an appropriations slush fund used for trade aid, COVID, and climate-smart programs.
Repeal sugar program and ARC/PLC; cut crop-insurance premium subsidies
Proposed
Mandate champions legislation repealing the federal sugar program and ideally ARC/PLC, prohibiting same-year ARC/PLC plus indemnity stacking, and cutting taxpayer crop-insurance premium subsidies toward ≤50% (citing CBO 47%/40% options).
Separate farm-bill agriculture titles from nutrition titles on different timelines
Proposed
Mandate demands White House pressure for open farm-bill process and legislatively separating agricultural programs from SNAP/nutrition on different reauthorization timelines to end logrolling.
Move Food and Nutrition Service means-tested programs from USDA to HHS
Proposed
Mandate would transfer SNAP, WIC, school meals, and other FNS means-tested programs to HHS so all anti-poverty programs sit in one department, eliminating FNS at USDA.
Reimpose SNAP ABAWD waiver limits, close BBCE, reverse Thrifty Food Plan hike, end heat-and-eat
Proposed
Mandate restores Trump ABAWD waiver rule, tightens general work-requirement guidance, finalizes BBCE loophole closure, re-evaluates Biden’s Thrifty Food Plan benefit surge, and eliminates heat-and-eat utility loopholes via standardized allowances.
Rewrite CEP grouping rule, eliminate CEP, reject universal free school meals
Proposed
Mandate would promulgate a CEP rule barring subset school grouping, work with Congress to eliminate CEP, bar summer meals for non-summer-school students, and reject universal free school meals expansions.
Champion elimination of Conservation Reserve Program
Proposed
Mandate says farmers should not be paid broadly not to farm and that USDA should work with Congress to eliminate the overbroad Conservation Reserve Program.
Shift NRCS wetlands/erodible compliance to states; limit permanent easements
Proposed
Mandate seeks to remove NRCS authority to prescribe farm practices for program eligibility in favor of local SWCD plans, devolve wetlands/erodible rules to states, and limit/prohibit new permanent USDA easements.
Allow USDA-approved state-inspected meat and poultry into interstate commerce
Proposed
Mandate promotes legislation (e.g., New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act) removing barriers so state-inspected products meeting equal-to federal standards can ship interstate.
Reject new marketing orders/checkoffs; seek elimination; mandate periodic votes
Proposed
Mandate calls marketing orders and checkoffs compelled-speech cartels: reject new ones, eliminate when possible, ease termination, bar volume controls, seek congressional elimination, and require votes at least every five years that USDA must honor.
Repeal FAS Market Access Program and similar export-promotion subsidies
Proposed
Mandate says FAS should focus on trade-barrier removal, not subsidizing private export marketing, and should push legislation repealing MAP and similar market-development programs.
Repeal federal bioengineered food labeling mandate while keeping preemption
Proposed
Mandate urges USDA to counter biotech scare tactics, remove approval barriers, repeal the federal GE labeling law while maintaining federal preemption, and use USTR tools against foreign GE bans.
Revive EO 13855-style active forest management, fuel reduction, and timber sales
Proposed
Mandate rejects reliance on unplanned wildfire as management, pushes thinning/deadwood removal, higher timber sales, and building on EO 13855 to cut NEPA/ESA obstacles to fuel reduction.
Work with Congress to repeal Dietary Guidelines—or strictly cabin them to nutrition
Proposed
Mandate prefers repealing Dietary Guidelines entirely; minimally reforms process for transparency, prevents environmental/climate mission creep, and seeks to codify nutrition-only scope because guidelines drive school meals.