Senator Cutter used a moment of personal privilege on April 9, 2025, to criticize the U.S. Department of Agriculture for ending two programs that aided food banks and school meal programs in purchasing local foods.

Cutter said the USDA "nixed more than $1,000,000,000 from two programs" nationally — naming the Local Food Purchase Assistance program and the Local Food for Schools program — and said that $660,000,000 of that amount supported schoolchildren. Cutter stated that the cuts would remove more than $13,000,000 in USDA funding that Colorado food banks and schools rely on to purchase locally grown produce. He said the cuts would "hurt farmers, undermine food security, and drive up costs," and referenced Governor Polis's comments that the cuts would have those effects.

The senator noted rising food insecurity in recent years amid inflation and the expiration of pandemic-era benefit expansions, and cited a Colorado Health Institute estimate that "more than 1 in 10 Coloradans lack reliable access to nutritious food." His remarks were delivered as a personal-privilege statement on the Senate floor; they were not part of a bill debate or accompanied by a floor motion.

No formal action or floor motion related to the USDA programs was taken during the session portion recorded in the transcript; the remarks were recorded as a statement to the body and did not trigger committee referral or legislative action in this excerpt.