A range of farm policies is set to expire by year-end after Republicans omitted them from a tax cut mega-bill, and lawmakers face an uphill battle to reauthorize them.
The big question is whether Congress can muster the political willpower to update farm policy it failed to pass for two years straight, especially after every Democrat in July voted against a tax cut and farm spending package. Cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program included in that bill, a priority program for Democrats that helps more than 41 million low-income individuals purchase food, “certainly upends the traditional farm bill process,” ...