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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is teasing that the administration will announce tariff assistance to farmers as soon as next week, but both the messenger and the message are raising questions.

President Donald Trump and senior administration officials head to the United Kingdom today for the president’s second state visit to the sovereign state.

The California State Senate unanimously confirmed Karen Morrison as director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation. She has been with DPR since 2018, recently as chief deputy director. Earlier in her career, Morrison was a senior environmental scientist at the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) and was city commissioner for the City of West Sacramento Environment and Utilities Commission. 

The Labor Department issued a citation carrying a $16,500 penalty to Keystone Foods for failing to protect its employees from “fire and explosion hazards” at its poultry plant in Camilla, Georgia.

Some House Republicans say they hope the farmer fly-ins this week will spur action on a farm bill, although there’s no sign of a breakthrough between the House and Senate, and time is fast running out.

A sanitation company tasked with cleaning meatpacking plants for Cargill, JBS, Tyson Foods and five other companies has agreed to pay $1.5 million in penalties for employing at least 102 children in hazardous jobs, the Labor Department says.