On Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to approve the Fiscal Year 2024 agriculture appropriations bill. The legislation would fund USDA, FDA and dozens of other agencies related to food, agriculture and rural development.
The Senate bill provides just under $26 billion of funding, about $1 billion more than the House version. However, the House bill relies on clawing back $8 billion of unspent pandemic-era funds – a move that is dead on arrival in the Senate. This places the two chambers in a massive disagreement over the topline numbers that will have to be worked out…
