Federal Budget

Agriculture Groups Urge Resolution to Debt Ceiling Crisis - July 19, 2011

In a letter to President Obama and the leaders of Congress, NMPF joined a coalition of other agriculture organizations in requesting a timely resolution to the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations. In order to ensure that agriculture continued to lead the nation's economic recovery and contributed to domestic and global food security, the groups called for a rational long-term agreement on raising the debt ceiling that asks agriculture to only contribute reductions proportionate to its share of the federal budget.