Rebekah Alvey
Associate Editor at Agri-Pulse
Writing about Congress, FDA for @agripulse. Past: @eenewsupdates @dallasnews,@washingtonpost & @AU_SOC, @wkuherald.
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16 hours ago |
agri-pulse.com | Rebekah Alvey
Democrats are making the process as painful as possible, but Republicans are pushing major pieces of their giant budget bill toward votes on the House floor. After an all-night session, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the tax piece of the bill. It includes several valuable tax benefits for farmers and small businesses, including an increase in the Section 199A deduction for business income.
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22 hours ago |
agri-pulse.com | Rebekah Alvey
The Environmental Protection Agency has sent its next set of proposed biofuel volume mandates to the White House for review, signaling the long-delayed rule could be coming soon. Under the Renewable Fuel Standard, the agency sets renewable volume obligations for different fuel types like biomass-based diesel, advanced and cellulosic biofuels. The Biden administration punted on releasing RVOs for 2026-2028 by the Nov.
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1 day ago |
agriculture.com | Rebekah Alvey
House Republican budget reconciliation proposals would make historic cuts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid that could have a substantial impact on rural communities, advocates warn. Anti-hunger and rural health groups have been rallying against potential cuts to SNAP and Medicaid since the beginning of the reconciliation process. Now that committees have put proposals on paper, their full impact is more measurable.
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1 day ago |
agriculture.com | Rebekah Alvey
The 45Z clean fuel production credit was one of the few Inflation Reduction Act incentives spared in the House Ways and Means Committee budget reconciliation bill, and changes included in the expansion could benefit American biogas as well as traditional biofuels. Other credits on electric vehicles and more would be repealed almost immediately or phased out in coming years.
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1 day ago |
agri-pulse.com | Rebekah Alvey
Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee fought off Democratic attacks Wednesday on a plan to make states pay a portion of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for the first time in the program’s history. The committee debated its portion of the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill Tuesday night and all day Wednesday.
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