Farm bill proposal fails in US Senate ag committee amid food assistance funding fight

While the bill included bipartisan language from more than 100 bills, Democrats were unwilling to budge on their demand for a two-year extension to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act policy that requires states to pay for part of their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program if they have SNAP payment error rates in excess of 6 percent.

Chairman John Boozman amended the bill to extend the deadline one…