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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Reps. Roger Marshall and Jim McGovern could not be more different on paper. Marshall, a Republican, represents Kansas’ heavily agricultural 1st District, while McGovern is a liberal firebrand from Worcester, Mass. But the two lawmakers have rallied around the idea of "food as medicine."
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said he expects efforts to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program next year to focus on restricting the time that able-bodied adults without dependents can keep receiving benefits.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 - House conservatives spent weeks this spring demanding cuts in nutrition assistance that threatened to complicate passage of a new farm bill. But House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Texas, now says that he expects the final fiscal 2018 budget blueprint to leave farm bill spending unscathed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2017 - Republicans released a fiscal 2018 budget resolution that would clear the way for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts while requiring no reduction in farm bill spending.
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2017 - House GOP leaders hope to move a fiscal 2018 budget agreement that aims to cut $10 billion by tightening work requirements on food stamp recipients, but House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway says he intends to “recycle” any such savings back into the program.
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 - House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway is expressing confidence that he can get a new farm bill enacted despite a potential cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2017 - The future of a new farm bill is tied up in negotiations over a fiscal 2018 budget bill that Republicans want to pass in order to enact one of their top priorities – tax reform.
WASHINGTON, May 22, 2017 - President Trump’s fiscal 2018 budget proposes to cut crop insurance by $29 billion over 10 years, slash nearly 30 percent from food stamp spending and gut some key conservation, international food aid and rural development programs.
(This is the fourth article in our new Agri-Pulse series: “The seven things you should know before you write the next farm bill.” Each segment provides important background and “lessons learned” that can help inform and stimulate debate before formal work starts on writing the next farm bill.)
