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Split food stamps out of the farm bill

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 10, p. 298. Written by Daren Bakst.

Split food stamps out of the farm bill

The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: legislationp. 298 in the PDF
What the document says

“Separate the agricultural provisions of the farm bill from the nutrition provisions.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 298

The chapter says agricultural programs should be considered in legislation distinct from food stamps and the nutrition title, on separate reauthorization timelines, and that the two have been combined for political reasons which proponents readily admit.

What the document actually says

“Separate the agricultural provisions of the farm bill from the nutrition provisions.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 298
That sentence, in plain words

Take the food stamp part out of the farm law. Vote on the two apart.

What this is about

One big law covers both farming and food stamps. They are voted on together. The book says that is a political trick. It wants them split.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. No indexed law separates the nutrition title from the agricultural titles or puts them on different reauthorization timelines, and the candidates returned here are proclamations and unrelated rules matched on farm and nutrition words. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 298.
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    “Split food stamps out of the farm bill,” Project 2025, chapter 10, p. 298. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch10-split-farm-bill-from-nutrition/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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