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Food aid programs are not affected by the disaster assistance cut

To rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on June 3, 2025, in accordance with section 1012(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, section 2, Sec. 2. Written by .

Food aid programs are not affected by the disaster assistance cut

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What the document says

“none of the funds rescinded shall affect the administration of United States commodity-based food aid, including the Food for Peace program and the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program.”

To rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on June 3, 2025, in accordance with section 1012(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Sec. 2

The proviso to paragraph (14). It states that none of the funds rescinded shall affect the administration of United States commodity-based food aid, and names the Food for Peace program and the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. It is worded like the second proviso to paragraph (12), but without that proviso's words under this paragraph.

What the document actually says

“none of the funds rescinded shall affect the administration of United States commodity-based food aid, including the Food for Peace program and the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program.”

To rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on June 3, 2025, in accordance with section 1012(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Sec. 2
That sentence, in plain words

This cut may not change how food aid is run. The same two programs are named again.

What this is about

The words here are a little shorter than the ones used before. They do not say under this paragraph.

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