Washington- Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley introduced a bill Tuesday, which he says will help to rein in billions of dollars in Biden administration spending that’s siphoning money away from vital farm programs.
Radio Iowa reports that Grassley is calling it the “US Department of Agriculture Spending Accountability Act.”
“The bill limits spending from that part of the U.S.D.A. called the Commodity Credit Corporation,” Grassley says, “and it would limit the C.C.C. to spending money only on programs authorized by Congress.”
Grassley says the bill is designed to stop the USDA from undermining the role of Congress in writing the upcoming farm bill.
“Over the past few years, secretaries of agriculture have used excess funds in the CCC for their own agenda,” Grassley says. “It’s become one of the most costly tools in the farm safety net.”
Grassley says that the Biden Administration is using this agricultural loophole as a blank check to pay for multiple unapproved programs, which Grassley says include President Biden’s “environmental agenda.”
“Without these new controls, the Biden administration can simply fund its priorities using the C.C.C.,” Grassley says, “even if Congress rejects them in the upcoming Farm Bill.”
Grassley says that the bill would save about $8 billion.
