Repeal the federal sugar program
What the document says“Repeal the federal sugar program.”
The chapter describes the program as central planning whose purpose is to limit the sugar supply in order to raise prices, and says it has a regressive effect because lower-income households spend more of their money on food.
What the document actually says“Repeal the federal sugar program.”
The sugar program should end. Congress should repeal it.
One program limits how much sugar is sold. That keeps the price up. The book says poorer families feel that most. It wants the program ended.
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14
2025-07-04 · 139 Stat. 72
Section 10312 works on the machinery the chapter would repeal. It sets the raw cane sugar loan rate at 24.00 cents a pound for the 2025 through 2031 crop years and the refined beet sugar rate at 136.55 percent of it, puts a floor under storage rates for forfeited sugar, carries dates in the marketing allotment provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 from 2023 to 2031, sets deadlines for reallocating unused import quota, and orders a study of whether further terms and conditions should be placed on refined sugar imports. Nothing in it repeals or ends the program. The law continues and adjusts the loan rate and quota provisions the chapter describes, so it answers the proposal only by going the other way.
The chapter asked that the federal sugar program be repealed. The 2025 law keeps it and adjusts it. It sets the raw cane sugar loan rate at 24 cents a pound through 2031 and extends quota dates. Nothing in it ends the program.