Angie Craig

According to CBS News, the Trump administration will release about $3 billion in assistance to U.S. farmers despite the government shutdown.

On Monday the House passed a five-year reauthorization of USDA’s grain inspection program.

A Farm Bill battle is coming in the fall because Republicans will likely need Democrats’ help to construct a smaller Farm Bill.

Overnight Thursday, the House voted 219-213 to advance President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" for debate before a final vote.

The Trump reconciliation budget the House passed by one vote along party lines this week did nothing to reconcile the stark policy differences between the two parties over the importance of SNAP versus farmers.  Nothing could have made it clearer about the parties’ divergent priorities than an exchange in the Rules Committee between Rules and Ag Republican Austin Scott and top Ag Democrat Angie Cr

The historically bipartisan Farm Bill turned political this week as majority Ag Republicans turned back every Democratic amendment and sent their Farm Bill budget to the House on a party-line vote.  It wasn’t just SNAP spending reforms Democrats went after, but Trump actions like tariffs, staff cuts, and USDA grant freezes.   “From ...

Top House Ag Democrat Angie Craig said her farmers claim Farm Service Agency offices are way understaffed, despite USDA Secretary Rollins’ vow to keep all FSA offices open.  Craig was asked if Secretary Rollins could keep all FSA offices open when 11-hundred FSA staffers have taken deferred resignation buyouts.   “I had...

USDA layoffs and office consolidations are raising bipartisan concern in Congress.  Staffing levels could be pared by nearly 10% starting by early May, with the remaining staff relocated to three hubs around the country.  That’s according to briefed USDA officials, who are cited in a report by Government Executive, a government business news daily.   The layoffs and ...

House Ag Chair G.T. Thompson renewed his calls this week for Farm Bill SNAP reforms that scuttled last year’s Farm Bill effort.  That came during a debate on a narrowly-passed House budget that the Senate must still consider.   Thomps...

The Ranking Members of the Senate and House Agriculture Committees are pressing the Trump administration for answers on international food aid disruptions.   Senator Amy Klobuchar and Representative Angie Craig, both Minnesota Democrats, asked for an explanation following a stop-work order that halted the delivery and distribution of hundreds of millions of metric tons of American-grown food aid,