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Key Senate Republicans still want emergency aid for farmers despite the end of the U.S.-China trade war. 

Input costs will be the focus of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today.

Senators are back in D.C. today for votes on a stopgap spending bill to end the partial government shutdown. But so far, there’s been no sign of progress to end the shutdown. 

The partial government shutdown that has forced the furlough of half USDA’s workforce, including most of the field staff that directly serves farmers, is dragging into another week and may delay the announcement of an emergency farm aid package.

A group of Senate Democrats wrote to the president on Tuesday to push the administration to drop plans to provide Argentina with financial support ahead of its legislative elections next month.

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins will address the annual Ag Outlook Forum in Kansas City, Missouri, today during this pivotal moment in time for U.S. agriculture.

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden staunchly defended USDA’s reorganization plan at the Senate Agriculture Committee Wednesday, saying it would make the department more efficient and allow more employees to live in areas where they can afford to buy a home.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman, R-Ark., and the ranking member, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, have called for a hearing on USDA’s reorganization plan. Klobuchar told reporters the plan was “unacceptable” and said it would “decimate research work at the USDA.”

Biofuel groups have been celebrating advances in the 45Z tax credit for clean fuel producers included in the GOP budget reconciliation bill, with one notable exception. 

Republicans forced their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill through the Senate  after a dramatic, marathon vote-a-rama before Vice President JD Vance could cast the deciding tie-breaking vote shortly after noon Tuesday on the massive budget reconciliation measure.