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House GOP leaders overcame Republican objections to Senate provisions on SNAP, rural hospitals and other issues overnight Thursday to clear President Donald Trump’s massive spending and tax package for his signature. The bill will provide $66 billion in new spending for farm programs, the largest infusion of new money into farm programs since 2002.

States would reduce or end Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for an estimated 1.3 million people in an average month under a state cost-share requirement included in the House-passed budget reconciliation bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

House GOP leaders will try to win passage of the Senate-passed budget framework over opposition of deficit hawks this week, and lawmakers will get a chance to vent their concerns about the market turmoil unleashed by President Donald Trump’s stiff new tariffs. You'll find a full list of hearings and events scheduled for this week.

The House is set to debate the annual funding bill for USDA and FDA this week, even as a partial shutdown looms at the end of this week unless House Republicans and Democratic-controlled Senate can agree on a stopgap spending bill.

House Republican leaders have been struggling to get the votes to move a partisan fiscal 2024 funding bill for USDA and FDA ahead of the long summer recess, raising fresh doubts about how soon lawmakers can start working on the farm bill this fall. 

A bill that will suspend the debt ceiling, impose caps on federal spending and make major changes to work requirements under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program got final approval from the Senate late Thursday, clearing the measure for President Joe Biden's signature in time to avert a government default.

House Republicans who have been struggling unsuccessfully for years to tighten work rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program scored a win in the debt limit negotiations that would expand the requirements to people in their early 50s, but President Joe Biden also won key new exemptions for veterans and people who are homeless.