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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
House Republicans proposed a plan Wednesday for raising the federal debt ceiling that would also expand work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to able-bodied adults as old as 55.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said Wednesday the debate over SNAP work requirements should take place during the farm bill debate, not as an issue for negotiations over the government’s debt ceiling.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack pushed back against Republican criticism of spending under the SNAP program and from the Commodity Credit Corp. at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing Thursday focused on the farm bill.
Senators and witnesses at a hearing Wednesday expressed sharp differences over the need for – and impacts of – a potential national low carbon fuel standard.
A former agriculture secretary, House speaker and House Agriculture Committee chairman are all expressing optimism that Congress can pass a new farm bill this year despite the sharp political divide in Congress and fractured House GOP conference.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow is calling on farm groups to fight any cuts to farm bill programs as House Republicans work to reduce spending this year.
As Congress begins to craft the 2023 Farm Bill, USDA Undersecretary for Research, Education and Economics Chavonda Jacobs-Young explained the need to invest in research infrastructure and workforce development and make research more digestible and usable to agricultural producers.
Both Democratic and Republican senators pushed for simpler Rural Development program applications in a hearing Tuesday, saying the current process is arduous and favors those who hire grant writers to help them in the process.
The Senate Agriculture Committee plans a few farm bill hearings before the end of the year with an eye toward trying to get a new bill enacted as soon as 2023.
