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The Animal Health Institute named Gene Harrington senior director of state affairs. Bob Ellison joined Agri-Pulse as managing editor. Scott Bennett joined Ceva Animal Health in the newly created role as director of public affairs and market access.

Jay Ivey joined CropLife America as a manager of federal government relations. President Donald Trump nominated Ted Cooke to lead the Bureau of Reclamation. Margaret Fogarty and Leigh Picchetti launched a consulting firm: Corkboard Communications. Western Skies Strategies hired Jenna Stanton as interim federal policy director.

The Senate parliamentarian has signed off on a revised GOP plan to require states to help pay for SNAP benefits based on their error rates, preserving an estimated $41 billion in budget savings needed for Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill.

Senate Republicans hope to find out today whether they can salvage a key cost-cutting provision in their budget reconciliation bill.

After a lengthy recess, the House Appropriations Committee passed the fiscal year 2026 funding bill for USDA, the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies in a party-line vote. 

Bob Ellison, a trained broadcast journalist with decades of experience, is joining Agri-Pulse as managing editor.

Anti-hunger advocates are welcoming rulings by the Senate parliamentarian on the GOP budget reconciliation plan. The decisions will force GOP leaders to come up with new cuts to the bill or else accept a higher deficit increase.

A Texas bill requiring food products with certain ingredients to include a warning label has been signed into law, and is set to take effect in 2027.

Senate GOP leaders face a self-imposed deadline to pass their budget reconciliation bill before the July 4 deadline amid ongoing opposition from some deficit hawks and a fresh hole in the budget savings claimed by the Agriculture Committee. The Supreme Court is expected to consider its decision in a key pesticide case.

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. 

The Environmental Protection Agency must reconsider the impacts on climate change of biofuel volumes in its  2023 “set rule,” the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.