Build Back Better

The centerpiece of President Biden's agenda is set to take center-stage in the Senate. This comes with less than two weeks remaining before Democrats' self-imposed Christmas deadline to pass the almost $2 trillion social spending and climate bill known as Build Back Better ...

The month of December is a critical one for the Ag community, and the American people, as lawmakers on Capitol Hill struggle over the next few weeks to keep the government open, able to borrow, as well as vote on key pieces of the president’s agenda. The ...

Despite new funding for forestry, conservation and Ag research, the American Farm Bureau Federation says President Biden’s “Build Back Better” Act is bad for rural America. Much of the concern is over tax hikes and inflation. AFBF President ...

The "traditional" infrastructure, is bound for President Biden's desk, but he said he won't sign it until Congress is back in session. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the USDA's normal budget has many programs to support climate smart agriculture ...

Last week, President Biden failed to convince enough progressive members of his party to agree to his Build Back Better legislation, forcing House Speaker Pelosi to punt the effort last week, again leaving the farming community in limbo. Roughly $28 billion in conservation, rural development, and forestry aid, as well as $65 billion for rural broadband in a separate infrastructure bill, are once

Democrats in D.C. hope to move President’s Biden’s social spending-climate agenda and bipartisan infrastructure legislation to the House floor this week, ahead of a Sunday deadline, but structuring needed tax revenue remained a vexing issue. House Spe ...

Earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned her party about the need to trim back the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, the budget reconciliation bill. “I’m very disappointed we’re not going with the original $3.5 trillion," she ...

House Ag Committee Chair David Scott and fellow Democrats sent a letter to House and Senate leadership asking them to preserve the Ag spending provisions in the Build Back Better Act. They point out that the provisions included in the agriculture portion of the Build Back Better Act will make transformative investments that will benefit agricultural producers and rural communities for years in are

Over the weekend, Representative Dan Newhouse, Chair of the Western Caucus, delivered the Republican address. The Central Washington farmer used the time to focus on how the GOP believes the policies of President Biden and his party hurt rural America ...

Farmers and ranchers are getting a little nervous that Congressional Democrats may still end their stepped-up basis tax break in favor of a capital gains tax at death. The question of if ending stepped-up basis as a revenue source is still on the table was recently put before Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, with Oregon’s senior senator leaving open the possibility that the idea still had legs. B