{"id":9237,"date":"2025-05-15T01:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T01:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-ag-urges-industry-groups-to-back-megabill-farm-spending\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T01:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T01:31:59","slug":"house-ag-urges-industry-groups-to-back-megabill-farm-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-ag-urges-industry-groups-to-back-megabill-farm-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"House Ag urges industry groups to back megabill farm spending"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOP staff for the the House Agriculture Committee is warning industry groups that they need to get behind the panel\u2019s megabill package of $300 billion in nutrition spending cuts or risk getting nothing from the $60 billion in farm bill investments also included in the proposal.<\/p>\n

Trevor White, the committee\u2019s policy director, sent an email to agriculture lobbying groups encouraging them to make \u201cstatements of support\u201d and conduct \u201cdirect outreach to members off the committee\u201d to ensure that the farm bill programs survive the reconciliation process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the current budget environment, once this train leaves the station, if these investments are NOT included, it is hard to see a path forward for the remaining pieces of the farm bill,\u201d White said in the email sent Tuesday that was viewed by Blue Light News.<\/p>\n

House Agriculture Chair G.T. Thompson<\/a> (R-Pa.) told reporters recently that he still feels \u201cpositive\u201d about being able to pass a separate farm bill to update policies that didn\u2019t make it into the megabill central to enacting broad swaths of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda. But White’s comments are the latest indication that hopes of securing a new farm bill this year are fading fast.<\/p>\n

Thompson has also said that he wants to spearhead a \u201cskinny,\u201d budget-neutral farm bill later this year, if Republicans can pass the expensive farm safety net programs through the filibuster-skirting budget reconciliation process. However, Democrats have threatened that the cuts<\/u><\/a> to SNAP spending being pursued as part of the the GOP’s party-line package will mean they won’t support a separate farm bill this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cChairman Thompson looks forward to working with the Ranking Member and our Senate counterparts to move the remaining farm bill provisions after reconciliation,\u201d committee spokesperson Ben Goldey said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n

White\u2019s email also encouraged agriculture groups to reach out to lawmakers who aren\u2019t on the House Agriculture Committee to encourage them to support the measure’s farm bill provisions. That pressure could be critical to helping those programs survive a full House vote, as some fiscal hawks typically vote against the major subsidies included in the farm bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe survival of these investments beyond our committee should not be seen as a foregone conclusion,\u201d White wrote. \u201cIf your organization would like to see these investments included as the process moves forward, the Chairman would greatly appreciate your help by making statements of support, but also direct outreach to members off the committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also asked groups to report supportive statements and lobbying efforts to committee staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOP staff for the the House Agriculture Committee is warning industry groups that they need to get behind the panel\u2019s megabill package of $300 billion in nutrition spending cuts or risk getting nothing from the $60 billion in farm bill investments also included in the proposal. Trevor White, the committee\u2019s policy director, sent an email […]<\/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-9237","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\/9237","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=9237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}