Articles by Rebekah Alvey

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. 

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.

The Agriculture Department has rescinded Regional Conservation Partnership Program award offers to several organizations previously selected to receive Inflation Reduction Act funding, according to agency notices and interviews with impacted recipients. 

Challenges to the government’s decisions on small refinery exemptions must be heard in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, effectively taking the issue away from other circuit courts.

Biofuel and farm groups are generally hopeful that the Trump administration’s proposal on target for renewable fuels will better support growth across the industry, in addition to propping up domestic feedstocks. 
However, a lack of resolution on how the administration will handle small refinery exemptions and recent proposals on the 45Z tax credit for clean fuel producers could continue uncertainty in the market. 

The Senate Finance Committee has set the stage for negotiations with the House over the tax provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill that Republicans are trying to get to the White House this summer.

The Senate Finance Committee on Monday released its tax and Medicaid provisions for the budget reconciliation bill that Republicans are trying to reach agreement on, and they extend expiring 2017 tax cuts and expand some other provisions of the law. The provisions also extend the 45Z tax credit for clean fuels.

Farms appear to be protected from worker deportations – at least for now. But Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins is making it clear she’s still on board with President Donald Trump’s agenda of deporting illegal aliens from the U.S.

Senate Republicans will try to put the final touches on their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill during a work week shortened by the Juneteenth holiday, while trade discussions are expected to be on the agenda as President Donald Trump and Treasury Scott Bessent attend the G7 meeting this week in the Canadian Rockies.