Congress appears headed toward a partisan collision course in the 2025 farm bill, after House Agriculture Chair Glenn Thompson outlined priorities that are likely to repel many Democrats.
Battle lines on the five-year legislation came into sharper focus with Thompson’s title-by-title summary that would ditch the climate-change focus of some conservation programs and seek to revamp low-income nutrition programs.
Thompson (R-Pa.) also proposed expanding some forest-thinning and timber harvesting policies at the Forest Service, a potentially tough sell with congressional Democrats more aligned with environmental groups.
Thompson defended his approach as even-handed in a Congress with razor-thin margins and said he’d taken pains to make the bill as broadly appealing as he could.
