{"id":21307,"date":"2026-04-14T18:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-eyeing-late-april-floor-vote-on-the-farm-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:17:04","slug":"house-gop-eyeing-late-april-floor-vote-on-the-farm-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-eyeing-late-april-floor-vote-on-the-farm-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP eyeing late-April floor vote on the farm bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\n

The timing is still fluid and could be bumped to after the chamber\u2019s one-week recess at the beginning of May as lawmakers continue high-stakes negotiations<\/a> over immigration enforcement funding as well as a potential second reconciliation package.<\/p>\n

Republicans have been privately whipping votes since the House Agriculture Committee advanced the farm bill<\/a> in a 34-17 vote last month, putting pressure on GOP colleagues to help deliver what committee Chair G.T. Thompson<\/a> (R-Pa.) has called a \u201cmorale boost\u201d for rural America ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n

House GOP leadership senior staff have privately warned<\/a> that the package could be \u201cin big trouble\u201d on the floor due to intra-party divides over controversial provisions on pesticide labeling and state-level livestock laws. Rep. Angie Craig<\/a> (D-Minn.), the Agriculture Committee\u2019s top Democrat, has slammed what she calls \u201cpoison pills\u201d in the Republican-led bill.<\/p>\n

Some Democrats \u2014 particularly those seeking reelection in agriculture-heavy districts this November \u2014 may back the legislation, which includes dozens of bipartisan bills. Seven Democrats joined Republicans to advance the package out of committee.<\/p>\n

Republicans saw many of their favored policies that normally would be included in a farm bill enacted as part of last year\u2019s 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 \u2014 a move that soured Democrats ahead of farm bill negotiations.<\/p>\n

A successful House vote in the coming weeks would tee up negotiations in the Senate. Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman<\/a> (R-Ark.) has said he\u2019s 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 \u201cweeks rather than months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senators are also likely to run into similar partisan disagreements over Democrats\u2019 efforts to undo the GOP\u2019s SNAP cuts. Boozman told Blue Light News last year that he\u2019d likely avoid inclusion of the most contentious provisions that Thompson included in the farm bill in order to reach the Senate\u2019s 60-vote threshold for passage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s one-week recess at the beginning of May as lawmakers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}