the entire U.S. agriculture sector is waiting to see as well!

The House version of the NDAA is here (!!). The bill gets marked up next Wednesday.

It’s a lot of info to digest all at once, but here are some big items I’ve seen so far. 🧵

Senior Dems are pressuring vulnerable House Ag Dems to oppose GOP-led House farm bill - w/out telling them key pieces of their bills are in final draft

it's putting some of House Dems’ most at-risk members in an increasingly tough spot ahead of 5/23 vote

politi.co/3wxqTVk

In Montana, Native American voters could be the key to sending Jon Tester back to Congress - and Dems controlling the Senate.

But after a massive turnout decline in the last election, will they show up to support him in 2024?

My latest for POLITICO Magazine:
politico.com/news/magazine/…

Houston, MN

🚨 The House just noticed both crypto bills for its last week of May (May 20):
docs.house.gov/floor/Default.…

Rules is up with both:
rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-54…
rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-47…

AND (big deal alert) long-awaited new text of the McHenry-Thompson bill is live: rules.house.gov/sites/republic…

John Kirby, WH national security spokesman, said IDF offensive in Rafah is “not a major ground operation,” calls for reopening of aid corridor into Rafah

NEW: The federal government will spend millions to stem the spread of bird flu in the nation’s dairy herds to keep the virus from mutating and spreading among humans - amid a lag in testing

w/ Marcia Brown David Lim 🌸 Chelsea Cirruzzo

politi.co/44Crim0

When he first took the gavel last year a lot of anti-abortion leaders said they expected him to deliver for them.
'He’s going to work with the Congress to continue to advance the sanctity of human life. I have no question on that whatsoever.'
politico.com/news/2023/10/2…

NEW: Speaker Johnson tells us he will not put forward any national abortion restrictions either this year or even if the GOP wins control of the Senate & WH next year.

Echoing Trump: 'This is in the states’ purview now.' politico.com/news/magazine/…

Today in hemp news: Glenn "GT" Thompson told me he's heard from members on both sides of the aisle who want the intoxicating hemp loophole closed, and others from both sides who are fine w/the language as it stands.

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House farm bill expands access to the Rural Energy for America Program

lowers energy costs for farmers + rural small businesses

- max loan guarantee up to $50 million
- fed cost-share up to 50% for beginning, socially disadvantaged + veteran farmers; 35% for all others

Susan Cole is back in the House, looking radiant and unfazed

'24 Dems not quite cheering on plans to bring Gaza refugees to U.S.

Tester: Places like 'Egypt and Jordan should play a leading role in taking in refugees”

Brown: Admin 'should be focused on reaching an agreement that ends the fighting'

Ursula Perano

politico.com/live-updates/2…

BREAKING: The IDF is inside Rafah, aid workers say. There are two battalions. Here's our interview with Scott Anderson, who described the scene on the ground. 'Two dozen have been killed In the last 24 hours, including seven children.'

politico.com/news/2024/05/0…

0% chance SAFE banking gets in the House farm bill

Defeated 359-43

11 GOP against tabling

more news: Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) is introducing new wildlife corridors legislation today w/ Rep Ryan Zinke

Vasquez is pushing to get it in the final House farm bill draft

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) leading Senate companion

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