Articles Tagged with ''House Agriculture Committee''

House Republicans successfully passed their budget resolution bill Tuesday night in a 217-215 vote. 

Congressional Republicans are barreling toward a showdown over how much to cut taxes and spending as the Senate and House set to take up rival fiscal 2025 budget resolutions. The Senate could take up its budget plan this week.

The House and Senate are racing to reach deals on their respective budget resolutions, with markups scheduled on both sides this week. However, House leadership remains reluctant to accept the Senate’s proposal, even as it struggles to settle internal differences in the party.

Democratic leaders of the House Agriculture Committee and Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee are pushing USDA to explain and detail funding freezes in various agency programs. 

The Senate Agriculture Committee is set to advance the nomination of Brooke Rollins as agriculture secretary this week, while the Senate Finance Committee will take up the far more controversial nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of health and human services.  USDA issues a new farm income forecast amid a new trade war. 

House Republicans are targeting nutrition assistance for possible funding cuts as they look for ways to pay for other policy priorities, raising questions about how such reductions could affect Democratic support for a new farm bill.

Jimmy Carter, the former president and statesman who died Sunday at 100, was famously proud of being a peanut farmer and is being remembered for working to address food insecurity through modern farming practices and technology, and for giving time to help his old industry. 

The future of $31 billion in disaster relief and economic assistance for farmers was in doubt  night after Elon Musk and then, Donald Trump, threatened the political future of any Republicans who voted for the 1,500-page bill that contains the funding. The Senate cleared a water resources bill intended to increase funding for inland waterway projects.

Elon Musk’s full-throated opposition to a massive stopgap funding bill forced House GOP leaders to rethink the legislation, leaving in doubt $31 billion in disaster aid and market relief for farmers.  President-elect Donald Trump left the door open to supporting a stripped-down bill with farm aid included. 

Farm groups have a lot to cheer in the massive year-end funding bill that congressional leaders finally released Tuesday evening. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson wants to take up a new farm bill early in 2025, and he says he's encouraging farm groups to "relax" about RFK Jr.