The Biden-Harris Administration Monday (March 28, 2022) submitted to Congress the President’s budget for fiscal year 2023.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the budget “provides USDA with the tools needed to support a vibrant, revitalized, and prosperous rural America.”
The budget proposes:
- $1.1 billion in funding to address climate change across private, working agricultural land
- $1 billion to support agricultural producers and landowners to undertake conservation and climate-smart practices
- build on the $618 million investment to protect and restore watersheds made in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law by proposing an additional $135 million for these efforts
- $111 billion for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
- investing $935 million in rural America
- building on the $65 billion investment made by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to make high-speed internet available to all Americans
- an additional $133 million over 2022 levels for Reconnect to provide rural residents broadband
- more than $10 million for oversight and enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act
For more information on the President’s FY 2023 Budget, please visit: www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget.
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