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Daybreak Aug. 3: USDA funding bill includes $7B in disaster aid

08/03/21 10:00 AM By Bill Tomson, Philip Brasher, Steve Davies, and Ben Nuelle
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A fiscal 2022 funding bill for USDA and the Food and Drug Administration is headed to the full Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill, which was approved Monday evening by the committee’s Agriculture subcommittee, includes about $7 billion in supplemental assistance for farmers who have been affected by drought and other natural disasters.
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