Federal Policy Updates (aka Update from the Swamp)

Rural Vermont joins the National Family Farm Coalition and many other groups in opposing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), also known as "NAFTA 2.0." The new agreement does not fix the fundamental shortcomings of the previous North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), while further locking in trade rules that have devastated family farms and expanded corporate control over agriculture and our food system in all three countries. The bill could be voted on in Congress as early as next week. Read the letter from environmental and agricultural groups that Rural Vermont endorsed here. Contact Vermont's delegation to voice your opposition. 

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