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The last-minute Continuing Resolution will fund the government until March 14, allocate about $100 billion in disaster relief and extend the farm bill. It received a total of 366 favorable votes ...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers from Southern states are calling on congressional leaders to pass federal agricultural disaster assistance, in the wake of Hurricane Helene and other recent natural ...
House and Senate leaders have agreed on a short-term government funding bill to avert a Friday partial shutdown and kick the fiscal year 2025 funding fight into next year.
To improve trade competitiveness, the Trump administration revealed a plan to help US farmers in the form of state aid., [8] with a planned bailout program of $12 billion state aid to US farmers suffering from the US-China trade war. In 2018 Trump administration introduced $16 billion (~$19.1 billion in 2023) of new trade aid.
Agreed to by the House on April 20, 2024 (366-58 311-112 385-34 360-58) and by the Senate on April 23, 2024 Signed into law by President Joe Biden on April 24, 2024 Public Law 118-50 (referred to as the National Security Act, 2024 in drafts) is an appropriations bill enacted by the 118th Congress and signed into law by president Joe Biden on ...
The U.S. agricultural policy reform was caused by the agricultural and budget pressures combined with the growth in the U.S. economy level and the developments in the agricultural sector. [15] The Crop Insurance Program was first proposed in the 1930s to assist agriculture recover from the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. [16]
President Joe Biden on Thursday joined growing calls from Democrats and even one Republican to bring Congress back to pass certain additional disaster aid funding in the wake of the devastation in ...
The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, commonly known as the Stafford Act, [1] is a 1988 United States federal law designed to bring an orderly and systematic means of federal natural disaster assistance for state and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to aid citizens. Congress's intention was ...