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This report provides a snapshot of the U.S. Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day's press releases.

Last September, Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment in Freeport received a $35 million grant from the USDA to expand climate-friendly, regenerative farming practices nationwide. Now a national leader, Wolfe’s Neck Center has big plans to help farms across the country transform our food system.

Bridgestone Americas is backing a $70 million research initiative at the University of Arizona into the viability of the guayule shrub as a potential natural rubber source.

Institute to focus on climate-smart practices that absorb, store carbon while simultaneously boosting ag and forestry economies.

The U.S. could hit its debt cap by June 1, a fast-approaching deadline.

A little-known slush fund at the U.S. Department of Agriculture has become a go-to funding source for billions of dollars of abusive spending in the last few administrations, Democrat and Republican alike. Currently, the Biden administration is improperly using it to help carry out its climate agenda. 

The top Democrat on the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee is defending Ag Secretary Tom Vilsacks usage of the Commodity Credit Corp. account and says Congress should "absolutely not" impose new restrictions.

The University of Minnesota (U of M) has announced it will utilize a $20 million grant to study how the technology could bolster climate change studies and farming activities.

A little-known slush fund at the U.S. Department of Agriculture has become a source for billions in abusive government spending.

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