Year-end spending bill would erase crop-insurance cuts

The proposed 3-percent cut in crop insurance funding will be erased when Congress passes its catch-all spending bill at the end of the year, said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The cuts were written into the two-year budget pact, announced on Monday, but Republican leaders, under fire from farm-state lawmakers, backpedaled. “It is our joint… » Read More

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