The Congressional Budget Office’s 2024 baseline for mandatory farm programs and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program projects farm bill expenditures at $1.46 trillion over the next ten years. That’s down 3.5 percent from the previous ten-year baseline forecast of $1.5 trillion. The baseline figures that will be released in May will be the farm bill scoring baseline unless there is a different direction from the budget committees. SNAP spending was reduced from the May 2023 baseline, but a report from the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Republican staff emphasized SNAP funding is up 73 percent since 2018.
