The government workforce reduction is making headlines on a daily basis. Minnesota Senator Tina Smith said efficiencies can be made in government, but feels President Trump is taking a ‘slash and burn’ approach. “The President isn’t the king.; he doesn’t just get to make the law. His job is to implement the law and Congress passes laws.” The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 initiative calls for cuts to agriculture spending including crop insurance, the ARC/PLC programs and the sugar program. “During the campaign, the President said he had nothing to do with this Project 2025 agenda and yet the guy who wrote it is now running the Office of Management and Budget which is the agency that is responsible basically for the fiscal policy of the Trump administration,” Smith told RRFN. “Time after time, the things that they proposed in Project 2025 are being presented as the next thing that the administration wants to do so it feels a bit like a bait and switch to a lot of folks who we’re paying attention to that during the campaign.” Smith said farm policy isn’t usually a partisan issue with all sides seeking what would work best for farmers and the food sector.
