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Senate Republicans are expected to extend key agricultural tax breaks but make other changes to the narrowly passed House version of the president’s tax and spending bill, which is the centerpiece of President Trump’s agenda.  Interest expen...

The ball is now in the Senate’s court on the Trump tax and spending bill.  And the fight over taxes, SNAP cuts, and tariffs is heating up quickly.  Majority Leader John Thune recently said it's ‘full speed ahead’ on the president’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” while slamming Democrats for vowing to fight against extending the 2017 tax cuts with 'everything they’ve got'.   “They are going to be votin

House Ag Chair GT Thompson said last week the Trump Tax Bill now headed to the Senate will finally shore up the farm safety net.  While most of last week’s House debate on the president’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” focused on SNAP and Medicaid savings opposed by Democrats, Thompson highlighted the bill’s improved farm safety net.   “The One Big Beautiful Bill ma...

The “Big Beautiful Bill,” passed along party lines by the House of Representatives on May 22nd, includes about $267 billion in spending cuts to SNAP over a 10-year period.   "The legislation severely cuts and alters implementation of SNAP and other programs that meet people’s basic needs, including Medicaid," The Alliance to End Hunger said in a news release late last week.   SNAP is th

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

Senate Ag Chair John Boozman recently said fellow Republican Chuck Grassley may be right in taking issue with the House Farm Bill budget reforms to SNAP.  Boozman has an eye on the House farm bill, now part of the broader House budget reconciliation bill that the GOP hopes to enact to advance the President’s tax and spending agenda.  But Gras...

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 ...

House Republicans are proposing a $290 billion cut from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over the next decade.  The GOP plan uses some of the money saved to increase spending on commodity programs, crop insurance, and other farm bill programs.  The dra...

At a press conference on Capitol Hill last week, House Ag Committee Democrats railed against Republican plans to cut spending on food aid in SNAP.  The Democrats emphasized that funding for SNAP supports hungry families as well as farmers, grocery workers, truckers, and food manufacturers.    ...

House leaders are delaying a planned Agriculture Committee markup that was tentatively set for this week as big issues remain for the GOP’s massive domestic policy bill, according to two Republicans granted anonymity to relay the decision ahead of an official announcement.   P...