Farm Bill Funding Depends on Budget Reconciliation

Before Congress went on its two-week spring recess, House Republicans were able to pass the Senate budget resolution. That clears the path for budget reconciliation. There is speculation that lawmakers will use budget reconciliation to pass individual titles of the farm bill rather than one, big comprehensive bill. Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar met with Ag Committee Chair John Boozman and Ag Appropriations Subcommittee Chair John Hoeven to discuss this issue. Klobuchar said agriculture has been hit hard by tariffs, weather, and animal disease. “What we’re all doing is pushing into that reconciliation bill to make sure there’s enough so we can actually have a farm bill coming out of that because that will settle out of the baseline amount.”