Lawmakers are on recess while trips abroad and North Korea capture Washington’s attention. Meanwhile, the IMF and World Bank hold their spring meetings in Washington.
The spend-happy Hollywood types have poured money into a special election today in Georgia to replace former Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) who was picked by President Donald Trump to head up Health and Human Services (HHS).
President Trump’s proponents keep saying to read the president’s book, The Art of the Deal. Is that in the non-fiction or fiction section? Or perhaps the alternative non-faction category.
Lawmakers reached a budget agreement for the remaining months of Fiscal Year 2017, which ends September 30. Cotton and dairy farm program language did not make it in the final budget package.
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue’s speech was not his “first major farm policy address”, as he spoke mostly “from the heart” and not from the 17 pages he said some staff had written for him.
