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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.

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that Republicans can’t use the budget reconciliation process to impose a state cost-share for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, negating a major source of spending cuts for the legislation. Also ruled out was a provision to suspend permanent price support authority, the device lawmakers use to ensure future Congresses don't allow commodity programs to lapse. 

Republicans in the House and Senate are closely aligned on the farm bill provisions in their budget reconciliation bill, although the Senate version is more favorable to corn and soybean growers who dominate Midwest farming.

The Senate Agriculture Committee developed a reconciliation plan similar to the House version passed last month, but with a scaled-back state cost-share for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and less restrictive work requirements for parents of school-age kids. 

Senate Republicans are trying to find agreement this week on their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill that may scale back some of the House spending cuts, and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins will face the House Ag Committee, while work continues in the House Appropriations Committee.

A 2010 law that was supposed to bring federal budget deficits under control could theoretically USDA to slash farm program spending because of the budget reconciliation bill Republicans are trying to push through Congress. But lawmakers have routinely waived the spending cuts before, and they're likely to do so once again, leading some to question why the law is still on the books.

House Republicans took a major step toward enacting President Donald Trump's policy agenda and boosting spending for commodity programs and crop insurance by winning passage Thursday morning of the GOP's sweeping budget reconciliation bill.

House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn Thompson says he’s ready to start work on a stand-alone farm bill as soon as he’s done with the House budget reconciliation measure that’s being used to boost spending on key farm programs. But can he muster bipartisan support for what would be left behind by the reconciliation process? 

House Republican leaders are trying to resolve sharp differences over the giant budget reconciliation bill after it stalled in the Budget Committee amid a clash between hardline conservatives and some Northeast moderates. The Budget Committee advanced the bill during a rare Sunday night session, but the Freedom Caucus said it would keep pushing for more spending cuts.

Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee repeatedly criticized a Republican proposal to make states pay for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for the first time in the program’s history.