2027 Agriculture and FDA Appropriations Act

Official title: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2027

This vote bundled more than one measure

Bundle. A single yes funded four agencies and also enacted unrelated policy that could not pass on the dollar amounts alone. The same vote carried a rider shielding opponents of same-sex marriage from federal action (Sec. 764), a full FDA pet-food statute that preempts state labeling law (Sec. 772, the PURR Act), the permanent cancellation of $95 million in Inflation Reduction Act funds (Sec. 750), a de facto horse-slaughter ban by defunding inspection (Sec. 756), the forced rescission of USDA livestock-market rules (Sec. 758), and an amendment to reclamation law for a Colorado water project (Sec. 779). The machine labeled this "review" because it found no divisions; the riders ride as ordinary sections of Title VII, not as separate divisions, so the coupling is real and lives in the general provisions.

What this does

Full-year FY2027 appropriations for USDA, FDA, CFTC, and Farm Credit Administration, carrying substantive policy riders in Title VII, including a same-sex-marriage-belief rider, an FDA pet-food statute that preempts state law, a $95M IRA cancellation, a horse-slaughter defunding, forced rescission of livestock-market rules, and a Colorado water-project amendment.

House vote · 213-210

Democrats4–205

Republicans208–5

Independents1–0

How we know · 12 sourced claims

The bill funds USDA, FDA, CFTC, and the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027.Source: Line 15-16 (enacting clause, fiscal year ending September 30, 2027); Line 139 (FDA); Line 143 (CFTC, $355,000,000); Line 145 (Farm Credit Administration)
It sets $101,241,955,000 for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.Source: Line 122 (SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, $101,241,955,000)
It sets $37,900,930,000 for Child Nutrition Programs.Source: Line 120 (CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS, $37,900,930,000)
It sets $8,000,000,000 for WIC.Source: Line 121 (SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC), $8,000,000,000)
It sets $7,109,336,000 for the FDA.Source: Line 139 (FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, SALARIES AND EXPENSES, $7,109,336,000)
It bars funds from being used to take discriminatory action against a person who acts on a belief that marriage is a union of one man and one woman.Source: Line 229 (Sec. 764(a)); Lines 230-234 (Sec. 764(b)-(c) defining discriminatory action)
It rewrites FDA regulation of animal and pet food through a new statute titled the PURR Act, and preempts state pet-food labeling rules that differ from the FDA's.Source: Line 247 (Sec. 772(a) adding section 425 to the FD&C Act); Lines 262/298 (PURR Act of 2026); Line 257 (Sec. 772, PREEMPTION: no State may enforce labeling requirements that differ from or extend beyond the FDA's)
It permanently cancels $95,000,000 in unobligated Inflation Reduction Act farm funds.Source: Line 203 (Sec. 750, unobligated balances made available by section 22006 of Public Law 117-169, $95,000,000 permanently cancelled)
It defunds inspection of horses for slaughter, which stops that slaughter.Source: Lines 210-212 (Sec. 756, none of the funds may be used to pay personnel to inspect horses under 21 U.S.C. 603 or to implement 9 CFR 352.19)
It directs the Secretary to rescind several USDA Packers and Stockyards rules.Source: Line 213 (Sec. 758, barring funds for and directing the Secretary to withdraw or rescind the Transparency in Poultry Grower Contracting, Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity, and related Packers and Stockyards rules)
It amends federal reclamation law to set repayment terms for the Arkansas Valley Conduit water project in Colorado.Source: Lines 344-351 (Sec. 779, amending Public Law 87-590 to add Arkansas Valley Conduit repayment-contract and operations provisions)
The riders ride as ordinary sections of Title VII general provisions, not as separate divisions.Source: Line 146 (VII GENERAL PROVISIONS heading); Sections 750, 756, 758, 764, 772, 779 all appear as numbered general provisions under Title VII

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R208–5D4–205I1–0

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State

Republicans

217

Democrats

212

Independents

YeaKevin KileyCA · District 3