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Washington Week Ahead: House panel debates USDA spending cuts as debt talks crawl

05/21/23 12:33 PM By Philip Brasher
KEYWORDS debt ceiling negotiations fruits and vegetables House Appropriations Committee Inflation Reduction Act rural electric cooperatives SNAP work requirements WIC food package

The House Appropriations Committee this week will takes up an unusually partisan funding bill for the USDA and FDA that highlights some major cuts to spending Republicans would like to make, even as President Joe Biden even as debt ceiling negotiations lurch toward a June deadline. 

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