Agriculture Department funding for farm conservation and education programs worth billions of dollars remains frozen as the White House reviews Biden-era initiatives, according to a senior staffer for Senate Agriculture Committee ranking member
Klobuchar said she received a list of “15 programs affected by the funding freeze” from USDA during a Tuesday Senate Agriculture confirmation hearing.
Dollars for farmers and rural communities are inaccessible to certain program participants, according to the staffer who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the details publicly. The list was first obtained by Bloomberg Government and provides the most ...