Heritage Foundation's
Project 2025

Chapter 10 - Department of Agriculture

• Reject efforts to transform the food system based on climate change and equity concerns
• Remove U.S. from UN and international sustainable development initiatives related to food
• Eliminate or restrict USDA's discretionary spending authority under the Commodity Credit Corporation
• Repeal or significantly reform farm subsidy programs like ARC and PLC
• Eliminate the federal sugar program
• Reduce premium subsidies for crop insurance
• Move food and nutrition programs (like SNAP) from USDA to HHS
• Re-implement and tighten work requirements for SNAP recipients
• Reform broad-based categorical eligibility for SNAP
• Re-evaluate and potentially reduce the recent increase to SNAP benefits
• Eliminate the "heat and eat" loophole for SNAP
• Reform the WIC state voucher system
• Re-evaluate regulations on baby formula
• Scale back expanded school meal programs, particularly the Community Eligibility Provision
• Reject proposals for universal free school meals
• Eliminate the Conservation Reserve Program
• Reform USDA conservation easements to limit their duration and scope
• Reduce the number and scope of agricultural marketing orders and checkoff programs
• Eliminate export promotion programs for U.S. agricultural products
• Allow state-inspected meat to be sold in interstate commerce
• Repeal the federal mandate to label genetically engineered food
• Reduce regulations on agricultural biotechnology
• Promote increased timber sales and harvesting in national forests
• Shift wildfire management focus to active forest management and increased harvesting
• Eliminate or significantly reform the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• Generally reduce the federal government's role in food and agricultural policy
• Change the USDA's mission statement to focus more narrowly on agriculture and remove references to equity and climate change
• Reform the Forest Service's approach to wildfire management
• Promote legislation for regular votes on marketing orders and checkoff programs
• Support efforts to remove trade barriers for U.S. agricultural products, especially those related to biotechnology