Earthjustice Action Slams Draft Senate Farm Bill as Corporate Giveaway

Contact: Siham Zniber, szniber@earthjustice.org

Washington, D.C. — In response to the introduction of the Senate Farm Bill, Ranjani Prabhakar, Earthjustice Action’s Legislative Director for Healthy Communities, issued the following statement:

“The Senate’s proposed Farm Bill would prop up corporations and polluters instead of helping our farmers grow and supply the high-quality and affordable food Americans deserve. Any Senator committed to supporting America’s farmers, transitioning from the costly cycle of GHG and chemical intensive growing practices, and protecting critical ecosystems should vote against a bill that would actively harm our communities, endangered species, and public lands and waters.”

The current bill would:

• Cut $2 billion from the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) while steering subsidies to the largest agribusiness operations.
• Keep harmful policy changes that shift more of the cost of running the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to the states, burdening already-strained state budgets while working families face high food prices and rising costs.
• Prioritize the logging industry with dramatic exemptions to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and tribal consultation that will almost certainly increase wildfire risk.

Since the Republican reconciliation bill passed in July 2025, 4.7 million people have lost access to SNAP; the draft Senate Farm Bill does nothing to prevent further losses.

Earlier this year, Earthjustice Action condemned the passage of the House of Representatives’ own version of the Farm Bill, and was part of the 233 environmental organizations who urged House Democrats to vote against the bill, saying it would “undermine conservation and forest management, public health, community safety, and states’ rights.”