Tuesday the House of Representatives passed a $1.4 trillion appropriations bill for 2020. It's expected to clear the Senate and President Trump is expected to sign it by Friday, averting a government shutdown. Here's some of what's in the bill, according to Ryan McCrimmon of Politico's Morning Agriculture:
- $23.4 billion in discretionary funding for food and farm programs in the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.
- An extra $1.5 billion in aid for farmers and ranchers affected by this year's extreme weather. The aid will also help sugar beet growers in the Upper Midwest who are facing a bad harvest.
- A ban on using federal funds to block interstate transportation of hemp or interfere with the processing, sales or use of legally grown hemp.
- Revival of the biodiesel tax credit, including ethanol, which expired in 2017, for five years, retroactive to 2018.
- Language ordering the Interior Department to provide more information and transparency about its relocation of Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Grand Junction, Colo.
- House Democrats wanted language that would stop USDA from moving the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City, but the bill only includes a provision barring USDA from reorganizing its agencies from one branch of the department to another.
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