Items Tagged with 'Thom Tillis'

Most states are going to get hit with a bill for SNAP benefits unless they can get their error rates down quickly. Under a provision in the Senate’s massive budget reconciliation bill only eight states would be exempt from sharing some SNAP benefit costs, based on the FY24 error rates.

U.S. trade policies are compounding preexisting economic challenges, putting farmers on course for a crisis at a scale not seen since the 1980s, American Soybean Association President Caleb Ragland warned senators.

Talks between the Trump administration and Japan to improve market access for U.S. agriculture and other sectors are already underway and will soon reach a "new level," U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Tuesday on the eve of new reciprocal tariffs taking effect.

Just hours after President Trump announced sweeping new duties on U.S. trade partners, multiple senators from his own party sided with Democrats to rebuke his trade policy.

The House could  pass a short-term package of tax breaks as soon as this week, but the measure faces some Republican concerns that the expanded child tax credit included in the deal could help President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign or encourage working parents to quit their jobs.