The House followed the Senate in passing a bill that funded the government, provided hurricane relief and addressed the debt limit. However, this is only a temporary solution until December.Today the House of Representatives passed an amended Reinforcing Education Accountability in Development Act (READ) by a vote of 316-90 after passing an earlier version in January. It pertains to enhancing the transparency and accelerating the impact of foreign aid intended to promote quality basic education in developing countries. The bill was passed in the Senate yesterday (80-17) after being amended to address the following three critical items:
Hurricane Harvey disaster relief Suspension of the debt ceiling Continuing resolution to fund the gov...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
