Articles Tagged with ''SNAP''

USDA is awarding commodity groups the first $300 million in trade promotion grants under a $1.2 billion initiative known as the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program and funded through the department’s Commodity Credit Corporation spending authority.

In this joint opinion piece, philanthropists and professional athletes Curtis Granderson and Kelvin Beachum highlight their respective charitable endeavors while advocating for Congress to enact a farm bill that strengthens SNAP and other federal nutrition programs.  

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson works to build the case this week for a farm bill that so far lacks any Democratic support ahead of the panel’s scheduled votes May 23.

Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees announced dueling plans for a new farm bill as the partisan impasse appeared to deepen ahead of the House panel’s planned votes on May 23. House Ag Chairman Glenn Thompson released a broad summary of his planned legislation, and his Senate counterpart, Debbie Stabenow, followed with a much more detailed section-by-section summary of her draft bill.

The top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee on Friday accused the panel’s majority Republicans of “abandoning bipartisanship” to push through a farm bill next month that will include restrictions on nutrition assistance and the Commodity Credit Corporation that are unacceptable to Democrats.

In this opinion piece, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn "GT" Thompson explains how he plans to prescribe a cost-neutral process to make changes in the Thrifty Food Plan in a new farm bill that will be developed by his committee before Memorial Day.

House Democrats plotted their next steps on the farm bill after meeting Thursday to debate a brief summary of the latest GOP proposal for the legislation.