National Ag News
Threat to farm payment funding averted
Dec 22, 2017, 11:13 AM
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The immediate threat of losing farm program funding has been averted by Congress. Lawmakers on Thursday passed a Continuing Resolution to temporarily fund the federal government through January 19th, averting a government shutdown.
Included in the resolution is a provision waiving the so-called PAY-GO (pay as you go) rules that would have triggered cuts to mandatory spending because of the tax bill Congress passed this week which will add an estimated one-and-a-half Trillion dollars to the federal deficit.
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