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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, March 08, 2025
House Republicans try to agree on a grand plan for enacting President Donald Trump’s tax and spending plans this week, while the Senate GOP is opting for a Plan B, a smaller budget plan that leaves more the costliest issues for later. The Senate is set to consider Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to be secretary of health and human services, and Brooke Rollins' nomination to be secretary of agriculture.
The Agriculture Department announced the addition of Kailee Tkacz Buller, Jennifer Tiller and Audra Weeks, among others, to the agency’s senior staff to “implement President Trump’s America First agenda," the department said in a release Tuesday.
Treasury Secretary-designate Scott Bessent told lawmakers in his confirmation hearing that he would protect U.S. farmers from any tariff retaliation by pushing China to live up to its purchasing commitments under the phase one deal.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is on Capitol Hill this week and reassured one key senator that he has an appreciation for U.S. agriculture.
Proposals to reform the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s constitution and governing processes represent a Chinese effort to expand Beijing’s global influence and undermine U.S. agricultural leadership, a group of Republicans say.
The world’s largest commodity trader plans to slash about 8,000 of its global 164,000-person workforce as part of a sweeping effort to cut costs and restructure.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers are proposing to extend the new 45Z tax credit for low-carbon biofuels for 10 years but restrict the incentive to products derived from domestic feedstocks, such as vegetable oils and corn ethanol.
A bipartisan group of senators is pushing the Treasury Department to restrict the new 45Z clean fuels tax credit to domestically sourced feedstocks. That would prevent imports of used cooking oil from qualifying for the tax subsidy.
