Ag Lawmakers Remind Administration's Budget Proposal Is Just That

There are concerns in farm country about President Donald Trump's proposed 21% cut in USDA discretionary spending for Fiscal 2018, which begins October 1. Farm-state lawmakers, including House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Texas, and Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., have been quick to point out that the budget is merely a wish list from the president and Congress will have final say in what 2018 funding looks like when they craft appropriations bills.Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., the ranking Democrat on the Agriculture Committee, said the good news is Trump's budget will be ignored, "as it should be," but not before he jabbed the president for having a lack of understanding of rural America.The proposed budget from the administration may not even get a vote in Congress which would be similar to the past eight years where the administration-proposed budget did not receive much if any consideration on the Hill.