As Congress works on disaster aid for the hurricane-ravaged Southeast, some are proposing attaching a farm bill to the relief package. Longtime Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) says he won’t go for it.
For months Iowa’s Chuck Grassley has stated that he expects another one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill. But what about the idea raised by a former House Ag economist to attach the farm bill to a hurricane disaster bill and use that aid to leverage more farm bill spending?
Grassley also continued his calls for the traditional farm bill process to play out, despite another one-year extension of the 2018 bill looming.
Grassley worked for years to limit farm payments to those actively engaged in farming, use the savings for farm programs, and to pay down the national debt. He lost that fight in the 2015 and 2018 farm bills.
Senator Grassley made his comments on Tuesday during his weekly ag conference call with farm broadcasters and reporters.
