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🚨Major changes to SNAP and a host of farm bill programs updated in reconciliation text the House Agriculture Committee just released. Read more: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

US Halts #Cattle Imports From Mexico Over Flesh-Eating Fly via ⁦Gerson Freitas Jr.⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

In one hour, the House Ag Committee begins marking up a plan to shove costs of the nation’s largest anti-hunger program onto states. But Dem governors are warning they can’t pick up the tab, and grocers are concerned fewer benefits is bad for business. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

NEW: Alaska's lone House member GOP Rep Nick Begich supports the GOP's SNAP food aid plan — that would hit his home state hard Alaska, w/ a higher error rate + pockets of high food insecurity, would have to pay billions in coming years or cut benefits politico.com/live-updates/2…

Scoop - House Ag has a firm message to ag industry groups: back our reconciliation bill or risk getting nothing An email we obtained illustrates ongoing anxiety about getting a skinny farm bill later/GOP hardliner opposition to farm program spending ⬇️

After about 15 hours of debate Ag markup ends, advancing a plan to slash hundreds of billions in food aid spending while investing tens of billions of dollars in farm programs. The next big question is what the House can pass--and what Senate can stomach. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

Food safety warning letters have stalled at the FDA after the agency temporarily laid off the staff who review them. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is set to appear before the House Agriculture Committee on June 11 for the first time. Her testimony is expected amid massive changes to USDA’s staffing and distribution of federal funds. Read it first in Bloomberg Government: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

USDA says it just approved Nebraska's plan to ban residents from buying soda w/ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits (a first). GOP has long opposed buying soda & unhealthy foods w/ SNAP. Food industry groups less likely to welcome decision. usda.gov/about-usda/new…

SCOOP: In Feb, federal agencies "lost" many #FOIA requests but you probably had no idea. It turns out that the FOIAs disappeared due to an "insider threat attack" by 2 employees at a software company who were previously convicted of hacking into the State Dept 🧵 🎁

Some hot mic comments by House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole were played into a Rayburn hallway today during a closed-door meeting. He outlined funding plans and acknowledged Speaker Johnson's staff didn't want a Nov/Dec omnibus because of the Jan 3 vote. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. heralded the Make America Healthy Again report as a “milestone.” NOTUS found some problems with its bibliography. “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” one cited researcher told us. notus.org/health-science…

House GOP appropriators revived a fight to limit sales of intoxicating hemp products in a draft spending bill out today. A number of Republican lawmakers warned about the policy's impact to hemp farmers until the rider was ultimately cut last year. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

Senate Republican Leader John Thune said President Donald Trump’s giant fiscal bill is unlikely to repeal the estate tax. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-repo…

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Senate Republicans plan to water down House legislation that would shift as much as a quarter of the cost of federal food stamps to state governments to help pay for Trump’s tax and spending package, a key senator said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New: Trump pledged to boost AI in schools, per his executive order signed in April Yet his sweeping cuts to the Education Department could impede that mission Former federal officials and policy experts express uncertainty, possibility My deep dive: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

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