House Republicans are looking to bring their farm bill for a floor vote the last week of April, according to four people close to the talks who were granted anonymity to discuss them.

The timing is still fluid and could be bumped to after the chamber’s one-week recess at the beginning of May as lawmakers continue high-stakes negotiations over immigration enforcement funding as well as a potential second reconciliation package.

Republicans have been privately whipping votes since the House Agriculture Committee advanced the farm bill in a 34-17 vote last month, putting pressure on GOP colleagues to help deliver what committee Chair G.T. Thompson (R-Pa.) has called a “morale boost” for rural America ahead of the midterms.

House GOP leadership senior staff have privately warned that the package could be “in big trouble” on the floor due to intra-party divides over controversial provisions on pesticide labeling and state-level livestock laws. Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.), the Agriculture Committee’s top Democrat, has slammed what she calls “poison pills” in the Republican-led bill.

Some Democrats — particularly those seeking reelection in agriculture-heavy districts this November — may back the legislation, which includes dozens of bipartisan bills. Seven Democrats joined Republicans to advance the package out of committee.

Republicans saw many of their favored policies that normally would be included in a farm bill enacted as part of last year’s massive tax and spending package. That reconciliation package was paid for, in part, through major changes and cuts to spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — a move that soured Democrats ahead of farm bill negotiations.

A successful House vote in the coming weeks would tee up negotiations in the Senate. Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman (R-Ark.) has said he’s working on bill text but hasn’t offered a timeline for formal introduction or a markup. He told reporters Tuesday that the markup would be in a matter of “weeks rather than months.”

Senators are also likely to run into similar partisan disagreements over Democrats’ efforts to undo the GOP’s SNAP cuts. Boozman told Blue Light News last year that he’d likely avoid inclusion of the most contentious provisions that Thompson included in the farm bill in order to reach the Senate’s 60-vote threshold for passage.

Sen. Ruben Gallego said his former close friend, Rep. Eric Swalwell, “betrayed” his trust following revelations of sexual assault allegations and denied having any knowledge of the serious accusations lodged against the California Democrat.

“Eric Swalwell lied to all of us — lied to the most powerful people in this country — and they trusted him,” Gallego, an Arizona Democrat, told reporters Tuesday afternoon in his office.

“I fell for it,” Gallego said, adding that Swalwell “became very good at being a predator.”

Swalwell, who served with Gallego in the House, has withdrawn his bid for California governor and announced plans he will resign from Congress following multiple sexual misconduct allegations.

“I let this man into my family … it hurts me that this man hurt a lot of people,” Gallego, who chaired Swalwell’s 2020 presidential campaign, said in emotional remarks where he at times appeared on the verge of tears.

While Gallego conceded he had long heard rumblings that Swalwell was “flirty,” he insisted he was unaware of the severity of the charges being lodged against Swalwell by former staffers — including rape.

“Look, we socialized. We went out. But I never saw him engage in any of the predatory behavior, harassment, sexual assault or even like anything that,” Gallego said. “I’m sorry that we didn’t listen closer.”

He apologized to the victims of Swalwell’s alleged misconduct and pledged to hand over to the authorities electronic communications he had with Swalwell as part of any legal proceedings. Gallego also said revelations about Swalwell have made him reconsider rumors he’d heard previously about sexual transgressions involving elected officials in Washington — and reevaluate occasions where he might have crossed boundaries within his own professional circles.

“I definitely look at the world a different way now,” said Gallego. “I certainly am going to make sure that I’m going to take, you know, personal steps and office steps to make sure that we don’t even get close to a gray line.”

House GOP opponents of a clean reauthorization of a key spy power are charging ahead with a push to amend the 18-month extension — despite Speaker Mike Johnson saying he will not allow changes to be made to the legislation.

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) is seeking consideration of an amendment to the bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, that would prevent data brokers from selling information to the federal government, according to text of the provision obtained exclusively by POLITICO.

“Passing a clean Section 702 reauthorization without any reforms to protect the Fourth Amendment right to privacy would be a major disservice to the American people,” Davidson said. “We live in a digital age, and cell phones are now extensions of our homes; they store our personal conversations, location data, banking information, and health records. Our personal devices deserve the same constitutional protections as our homes.”

Warren also said his amendment would fix a loophole that currently allows intelligence agencies to get information from third-party brokers that collect data from phone apps and web activity without obtaining a warrant.

“My amendment closes that loophole, and I am proud that it carries bipartisan support from members who want to protect their constituents’ right to privacy,” Davidson added. “I look forward to a full House vote.”

The House Rules Committee will meet Tuesday afternoon to tee up floor consideration of the Section 702 extension. GOP leaders want to pass the bill Wednesday ahead of the April 20 expiration deadline, but several hard-liners are threatening to tank a procedural party-line rule necessary to consider the underlying measure unless amendments are permitted.

Leaders are resisting allowing amendments because the White House has requested a clean extension.