Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

10. Department of Agriculture · Major · Needs Congress

Repeal the ARC and PLC farm subsidy programs

Not started

296 10. Department of Agriculture

“Ideally, repeal the ARC and PLC programs. Farmers eligible to participate in ARC or PLC are generally already able to purchase federal crop insurance, policies that protect against shortfalls in expected revenue whether caused by lower prices or smaller harvests.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Congress moved the other way: the reconciliation act (P.L. 119-21, 2025-07-04, Secs. 10301–10305) extended ARC and PLC through the 2031 crop year, raised statutory reference prices (e.g. corn $4.10, wheat $6.35), lifted the effective-reference-price escalator from 85 to 88 percent and the ARC guarantee from 86 to 90 percent, and added up to 30 million new base acres; USDA's Farm Service Agency implemented the changes by rule on 2026-01-12. No repeal bill found.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • The contrary action is cited as Evidence on the not started event above: where Congress or the administration moved the other way, that action is the record. The enrolled P.L. 119-21 text was read from the govinfo HTML, and the FSA rule is effective on publication.
  • FSA final rule of 2026-07-09 (2026-13878) carries corrections to the ARC/PLC regulations.
  • H.R. 7567 was received in the Senate 2026-05-19; no Senate action in the congress.gov actions feed as of 2026-08-27.
  • No repeal bill: nothing among the 119th-Congress bills we keep and search is titled as a repeal of ARC or PLC.
Action
repeal
Object
Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs
ID
769