Congress Still Considering Next Coronavirus Relief Bill

Even with primary battles playing out for some of them this week, lawmakers are back in Washington to battle over what the next coronavirus relief package will include. Senate Republicans continue to fine-tune their one-trillion dollar proposal, more than a month after House Democrats passed their own worth three times that amount. Among those caught in the middle are agriculture, particularly biofuel producers that saw no targeted aid in the previous CARES Act. Andrew Walmsley, director of congressional relations with the American Farm Bureau Federation…

Walmsley says both bills include improvements to programs outside USDA that farmers can take advantage of.

Lawmakers are on a tight schedule, not only because of the August recess scheduled to begin later this week, but also because of several provisions from the CARES Act that expired this past weekend.