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President Donald Trump has a crucial chance tonight to shore up his party’s political standing heading into the midterm elections. Trump is giving his State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress just days after expressing anger over the Supreme Court's tariff decision, which is likely to figure significantly in the speech.

Agri-Pulse Founder and CEO Sara Wyant has been named The McAllister Top Management Fellow by the Software Information Industry Association. Each fall, the fellow spends three days with students and faculty at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

The House Ag Committee’s farm bill is a victim of the weather forecast. Ahead of a winter storm Sunday, the committee postponed a meeting that was scheduled Monday to begin debate on the legislation. The debate will now take place next week.

The highly popular Environmental Quality Incentives Program would lose around $1 billion in budget authority over the next four fiscal years under the House Agriculture Committee's GOP farm bill draft, according to calculations by the Congressional Budget Office. EQIP was essentially used as a funding source for other priorities in the legislation.

President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union message days after the Supreme Court struck down a cornerstone of his trade policy, and his controversial pick for U.S. surgeon general will get her long-delayed Senate confirmation hearing. The House Agriculture Committee was scheduled to begin debating a GOP farm bill on Monday, but due to weather the start of the markup was delayed.

Less than a day after President Trump signed a proclamation to implement a 10% global tariff to reinstate some of the duties struck down by the Supreme Court, the president said he is raising it.

President Donald Trump says the administration will use a combination of statutes to replicate some of the emergency tariffs that the Supreme Court struck down, starting with a new 10% baseline tariff to kick in Tuesday. 

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says Congress needs to "step up" on E15 legislation. Rollins also touted what she said was the Trump administration's success in working to bring down farm input costs and open new ag markets.

U.S. agriculture groups responded to the Supreme Court striking down President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs by calling for increased certainty in trade policy and carveouts for ag inputs in any new tariffs.

The Supreme Court on Friday issued its highly anticipated decision in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs, ruling 6-3 that the president overstepped his legal authorities.