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Several House Democrats stood in the sweltering summer heat Tuesday afternoon with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, pledging to gathered reporters and supporters there will be no vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement until the Trump administration meets their demands.

House Democrats are rolling out a series of fiscal 2020 spending bills that reject a range of White House spending cuts while challenging key Trump administration priorities and regulatory rollbacks at USDA, EPA and other agencies.

An effort to overhaul immigration laws got off to a rocky start on Capitol Hill when the White House plan developed by Jared Kushner met with a decidedly cool reception in the Senate.

From California to Georgia, farmers can’t find enough workers to harvest their crops or milk their cows. Combined with Congress’s decades-long failure to act on long-promised comprehensive immigration reform, the result is that U.S. consumers are paying more for a less-secure food supply as more production moves south of the Mexican border in search of farm labor.

The Trump administration announced it will resume collecting 17.5 percent tariffs on all chilled and fresh Mexican tomatoes after the Tomato Suspension Agreement expired on Tuesday.

The renegotiated North American trade pact is popular in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, but the Trump administration and U.S. lawmakers are making ratification increasingly difficult with complications that threaten to derail the process.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced today that USDA launched two new features on farmers.gov to help customers manage their farm loans and navigate the application process for H2A visas.