House GOP OKs $12B in Farm Aid

Jul 21, 2026

House Republicans advanced a budget blueprint on Thursday that authorizes the House Agriculture Committee to develop up to $12 billion in farm aid, scaling back from an earlier, larger proposal.

The blueprint includes $73 billion for defense and intelligence funding, $12 billion for agriculture aid and $10 billion for a fund that backs voting restrictions.

According to the Congressional Research Service, the House Agriculture Committee will debate and mark up legislation detailing how the $12 billion allocation is spent before sending it back to the Budget Committee to be packaged into the reconciliation bill. The measure will then move through the Rules Committee before heading to the House floor.

The budget resolution is expected to reach the House floor next week.

Momentum is building to get the proposal across the finish line before Congress adjourns for its September recess, as DTN reported on Tuesday. Read more at “Farm Aid Returns to Reconciliation Talks,” .

House Agriculture Committee Chairman G.T. Thompson, R-Pa., visited the White House late Tuesday afternoon, with other committee chairs, shortly before lawmakers scaled the farm aid proposal back to Trump’s original request, Punchbowl News reported. Vice President JD Vance is also expected to help rally Republicans on Capitol Hill Wednesday behind the legislation.

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