Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) introduced the Farm and Family Relief Act alongside fellow U.S. Representatives  Shontel Brown (OH-11), David Scott (GA-13), Jim Costa (CA-21), Alma Adams (NC-12), Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), Jill Tokuda (HI-02), Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), Eric Sorensen (IL-17), Gabe Vasquez (NM-02), Jonathan Jackson (IL-01), Adam Gray (CA-13), Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08), Shomari C. Figures (AL-02), Eugene Vindman (VA-07), Josh Riley (NY-19), John Mannion (NY-22), April McClain Delaney (MD-06) and Salud Carbajal (CA-24).

Unveiled at a press conference last week, the Farm and Family Relief Act is the first and only bill introduced in the second session of the 119^th Congress to provide meaningful relief to America’s family farmers and working people being crushed by the inflation and higher costs caused by President Trump’s tariffs and Republican cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in H.R. 1 (the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill”).                           

“President Trump took office one year ago and after launching his worldwide trade war, the cost of living has increased for just about everybody,” said Ranking Member Craig. “Family farmers have been hit hard by tariffs and lost market opportunities. Hardworking people pay more for groceries each time they go to the store. The Farm and Family Relief Act helps get America back on track by supporting farmers, foresters and families together and putting an end to the president’s ill-conceived tariffs. While President Trump focuses on regime change in Venezuela and threatening Greenland, House Democrats are focused on easing the pain his backward trade and economic policies are causing Americans’ bank accounts. I invite my Republican colleagues to join us to deliver this much-needed relief to farmers and families.”

Read the Farm and Family Relief Act framework here.

Read the summary of the Farm and Family Relief Act here.

Read the bill text here.

According to a new report by Joint Economic Committee Democrats, Trump’s inflation cost the average family $1,625 in the past year. Fruits and vegetable prices are up an average of 5.3 percent, while food eaten away from home has increased 4.1 percent. Hardworking Americans paid $310 more for groceries in 2025 than the year before.

The American Farm Bureau Federation estimated in November that U.S. farmers have accumulated over $50 billion in losses across the last three crop years. The 2025/26 crop year shows the steepest loss at $28 billion, influenced by Trump’s tariffs. Farm leaders have described the president’s $12 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance (FBA) program as “not enough.”

The National Governors Association recently estimated that annual SNAP expenditures could increase an average of $218 million per state if payment error rate data collected during the shutdown period is not excluded from cost-shift calculations, and a coalition of state and local stakeholders has urged Congress to delay the cost shifts.