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Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Democrats are looking to capitalize on the political opportunities afforded by President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff proposals and downplaying of the negative price impacts, lawmakers told Agri-Pulse this week.
Congress faces a Friday deadline to avert a government shutdown, with President Donald Trump backing a House GOP plan to pass a continuing resolution that would keep departments and agencies funded through Sept. 30, the end of fiscal 2025.
The Senate Agriculture Committee hears today from representatives from major agricultural sectors on the health of the farm economy. The hearing, which will feature almost a dozen witnesses, comes as farmers grapple with multiple economic threats.
President Donald Trump signed three executive orders to impose new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China starting Tuesday. The tariffs mark the first time a president has used powers granted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.
Republicans left the GOP convention expressing fresh optimism that they could make significant gains in the Senate in November, but President Joe Biden’s decision to end his re-election effort has injected new uncertainty into swing-state races.
Farm-state lawmakers guided more than $753 million in USDA funding into home state projects in this fiscal year’s $26.22 billion Agriculture appropriations bill through a system that allows them to direct money to research facilities, hospitals, community buildings and other pet programs.
New Mexico dairy farmer Art Schaap, who lost nearly 4,000 of his cows due to PFAS contamination, is still waiting on a payment from the Agriculture Department under the Dairy Indemnity Payment Program even as he struggles to keep his business afloat.
Representatives of the nation’s dairy producers say they’d like the chance to contribute to hearings that would take place under new legislation offered in the Senate.
