House bill won’t get floor time till September and doesn’t have enough Democratic support
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House Ag Committee Ranking Member David Scott says the partisan farm bill makes the largest cut to SNAP in nearly 30 years and undermines historic climate investments secured by House Democrats in the Inflation Reduction Act. Scott says that while the bill has advanced out of Committee, it has no future and doesn’t have the Democratic support needed to be brought to the House floor.
Following the mark-up Thompson told Agri-Pulse he doesn’t expect the bill to get floor time before September, and added it could help some lawmakers in their re-election races.