Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) risks leaving the Senate at the end of the year with a big question mark hanging over her almost three-decade career in Washington.
from the Senate a year ago. But the impasse means she may not be at the negotiating table when the full, five-year reauthorization is finally approved.
Both parties say it is still possible to get a deal done before the Sept. 30 deadline. Each chamber has put out competing proposals, while the House passed its version out of committee on Thursday in a largely party-line vote. Food stamps, though, have been a constant source of friction in talks. The bill exploded in size, to the tune of $256 billion, after the Biden administrationthe grocery cost estimate used to set SNAP benefits, and now Republicans want to force future changes to be cost neutral.
Stabenow predicted Republicans would have to abandon the changes if they want to get a farm bill done, citing past fights over SNAP. In debt ceiling negotiations last year, House Republicans won stricter work requirements but have been“Never works,” Stabenow said. “They always come back and realize you have to have the whole farm bill coalition.”
Boozman called Vilsack’s comments “unprecedented” and unhelpful. “Out of the $1.5 trillion that we’re talking about, we need more farm in the farm bill,” he said.Meanwhile, negotiators are at loggerheads over how to treat billions in Inflation Reduction Act dollars that Democrats want rolled into the farm bill. Republicans are open to doing so but want the money, currently slated for climate initiatives, to be available for conservation programs more broadly.
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