Inside House Passes Farm Bill

House on Thursday stripped a set of controversial provisions aimed at protecting pesticide manufacturers from the farm bill, following a Make America Healthy Again uprising that could have sunk the broader package. House Passes Farm Bill has emerged this Saturday as one of the stories drawing attention in United States.

Key facts

• House on Thursday stripped a set of controversial provisions aimed at protecting pesticide manufacturers from the farm bill, following a Make America Healthy Again uprising that could have sunk the broader package.
• The broader farm bill cleared the House Thursday morning by a vote of 224-200.
• The House of Representatives on Thursday stripped a set of controversial provisions aimed at protecting pesticide manufacturers from the farm bill, following a Make America Healthy Again uprising that could have sunk the broader package.
• Nonetheless, Thompson still celebrated the passage of the farm bill, saying in an X post that it is "a win for our farmers, ranchers, foresters, rural communities, and all Americans across our country.
• Republicans could still win the House in the 2026 midterm election: Scalise.

What we know

Going deeper, the broader farm bill cleared the House Thursday morning by a vote of 224-200.

On the substance, the House of Representatives on Thursday stripped a set of controversial provisions aimed at protecting pesticide manufacturers from the farm bill, following a Make America Healthy Again uprising that could have sunk the broader package.

Beyond the headlines, Nonetheless, Thompson still celebrated the passage of the farm bill, saying in an X post that it is "a win for our farmers, ranchers, foresters, rural communities, and all Americans across our country.

More precisely, Republicans could still win the House in the 2026 midterm election: Scalise.

It is worth noting that MAHA advocates said the language that was stripped could have provided liability protection for Bayer in lawsuits involving its Roundup weedkiller.

By the numbers

At this stage, Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla, to strip the language was passed by a vote of 280-142, after a bipartisan groundswell of opposition from lawmakers and MAHA advocates who said the provisions amounted to a "liability shield" to protect Bayer from allegations that its Roundup herbicide and its chemical glyphosate cause cancer.

On a related note, the Environmental Protection Agency does not classify glyphosate as a carcinogen and does not require labels to disclose cancer risk, but the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015 said the chemical is "probably carcinogenic to humans.

Going deeper, Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the 2024 election have suffered a rift since Trump backed glyphosate production in February.

The wider context

On a related note, it preempts states' rights to regulate pesticide usage or labeling [and] provides a liability shield for pesticide manufacturers," Pingree said on the House floor.

Going deeper, By taking this vote, Congress has turned their backs on U.S. farmers in an increasingly competitive global landscape by allowing blatant misinformation to undermine support for this critical provision," the statement read.

On the substance, the White House and the MAHA coalition that supported President Donald Trump after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Beyond the headlines, Earlier this week, the White House argued on behalf of Bayer at the Supreme Court in a court case that could make it far harder to sue the company over cancer claims.

More precisely, Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, who was helping lead the push to strip the pesticide language for Democrats, said the language represented a "handout to big agriculture, to big chemical.

The bottom line

• The broader farm bill cleared the House Thursday morning by a vote of 224-200.
• The House of Representatives on Thursday stripped a set of controversial provisions aimed at protecting pesticide manufacturers from the farm bill, following a Make America Healthy Again uprising that could have sunk the broader package.
• It preempts states' rights to regulate pesticide usage or labeling [and] provides a liability shield for pesticide manufacturers," Pingree said on the House floor.