House Republicans eye adding $60B farm bill package in Trump megabill
The proposed farm bill safety net package includes roughly $50 billion for crop reference prices, as well as money for crop insurance, dairy, livestock biosecurity, export trade promotion and so-called farm bill orphan programs, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks.
Senior Republicans want to pay for that additional farm bill piece of the package by shifting some federal spending for food aid benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to states for the first time. But they're still awaiting an official estimate from the Congressional Budget Office on the cost-share plan that will determine the size of the farm bill package and whether the panel can reach the $230 billion in spending cuts it's responsible for, given deep opposition from hard-liners for any unpaid for pieces of the megabill.
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Still, panel Republicans argue they need to include the new funding given the formal, traditionally bipartisan farm bill has been long-delayed amid partisan fights. Senate Republicans, however, are privately skeptical the package can survive the Senate, where Republicans are already vowing to kill off much of the SNAP cost-share plan.
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