House Republicans will focus on the Agriculture Committee on May 8 to advance its large mega-committee to develop President Donald Trump’s broad domestic agenda.
This target date, though a few weeks, is still an ambitious Tinias Republican, trying to address the huge gap between the House committee’s instructions, requiring the committee to complete $230 billion cuts on spending cuts, while the Senate Agriculture Committee’s minimum goal is to cut the minimum of massive tax cuts to eliminate massive tax cuts, enhancing border security, energy policy, energy policy, and more.
The conference will also launch a large public struggle on the future of the country’s largest anti-hunter program (Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps). The SNAP program helps feed more than 40 million low-income Americans, one of some Republicans’ safety net plans for cutting too deep to pay their partisan bills.
In highly competitive areas, more than a dozen Republicans raised concerns that cutting large amounts of money from the program would mean current food aid benefits, surpassing new job requirements that Republicans want to add for some low-income recipients. Councillors are also taking various measures to limit future updates to the plan and to close so-called vulnerabilities used in recent years in some states to maximize the flexibility of benefits.
One major problem is that senior Republicans guarantee vulnerable Republican incumbents that the party won’t actually cut $230 billion from Snap in the final bill, given that Senate Republicans think that number is too high. It is unclear how leadership will align with ensuring the Fiscal Eagles, that ultimate legislation will achieve a deficit reduction of at least $1.5 trillion.
Another issue that Republicans are currently addressing is that many members of farm states want to add billions of dollars in new spending from the farm bill program (mainly to raise farmers’ reference prices for crops), and those party line programs are already close to the rules contained in all other rules. But it is an acknowledgement that this year’s bipartisan farm bill looks increasingly bleak, and other legislative vehicles rarely address future items.
