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  • USDA faces budget cuts

    Thomas Garcia - Eamon Scarbrough, Staff writers|Jun 28, 2017

    The looming possibility of cuts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture isn’t what farmers in Eastern New Mexico want to see, but if spending on welfare and food assistance programs share the cuts, they say they are willing to face them. The proposed USDA 2018 budget, unveiled in May, shows plans to cut $4.8 billion from the agency, a 21 percent cut. The USDA funds a wide range of programs from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to subsidies for crop insurance. New restrictions on the subsidies will limit insurance premium subsidies t...