Republicans press Johnson for farm bill vote, warning of looming 'crisis'

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Source: The Hill

09/26/24 11:42 AM ET


Dozens of House Republicans are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to schedule a vote on a farm bill before the end of the year. That timeline is essential: Funding from the stopgap farm bill passed last year after the 2018 version expired is set to run out at the end of December.

If that happens, American farm policy will be thrown back into the days of the New Deal — a stark and disruptive change that will upend much of the foundation the modern agriculture sector is built on, the Congressional Research Service found in May.

And while some lawmakers — including Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member John Boozman (R-Ark.) — have called for another one-year stopgap, on Thursday GOP House members warned that this would fail to staunch the bleeding.

“Farmers and ranchers do not have the luxury of waiting until the next Congress for the enactment of an effective farm bill,” the members, who included House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.), wrote in their letter. Passing the bill, they wrote, is among “the top priorities” of the Republican conference.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4901163-house-republicans-urge-vote-farm-bill/

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The Farm Bill used to be sacrosanct... until Obama was elected and they realized that SNAP was part of it too. It's a 5-year appropriations and they threw their own farmers under the bus in order to take food out of the mouths of the needy.

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1. So large agibusiness can get their entitlement?

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2. Subsidies

E.g., there is a "fix" in there for the 1940s milk subsidy pricing that if not renewed, would send milk soaring to like $15/gal. Similarly it would have been $7/gal over a decade ago when they were messing with the Farm Bill under Obama.

Crop insurance is also in there - many are about to be flooded out when Hurricane Helene (that just got upgraded to a Cat 3) hits in the next couple days.

After all these years since they started full-on messing with it, I am shocked to read this. They must be catching hell from their MAGat base in those rural areas.

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3. The Rs have F'd up again

That's all they ever do - F-up one thing after another. They can't govern and everyone knows it.