Waste of the Day: Eliminate the $175.6 Million Corporate Welfare Market Access Program
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Adam Andrzejewski
Real Clear Wire
If Congress voted to eliminate the Market Access Program — what Citizens Against Government Waste called “the federal government’s most blatant examples of corporate welfare” — the U.S. could save $175.6 million a year.
Over the past decade, the Department of Agriculture program has given nearly $2 billion in taxpayer money to help agriculture trade associations, farmer cooperatives, and individual companies advertise their products overseas, according to Citizens Against Government Waste in its annual “Prime Cuts” report, which recommends ways to reduce the record national debt.
In FY 2023,
