SNAP Payment Error Rate and Chevron Deference
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**Clean Fuels Alliance America welcomed Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack to the June Member Meeting last week where he announced a Request for Information regarding climate-smart ag practices for biofuel feedstocks.
These practices can further lower the lifecycle carbon scores of advanced biofuels like biodiesel, renewable diesel, and sustainable aviation fuel.
Vilsack says the agency is looking for information on crops, crop practices, and how they can be documented, certified, and traced.
**House Ag Committee Chair "GT" Thompson and Senate Ag Committee Ranking Member John Boozman are reacting to the FY 2023 SNAP Payment Error Rate.
In a statement, they say while SNAP is a critical nutrition program for households in need, any level of erroneous payments is a misuse of taxpayer dollars.
They say with more than $10 billion in overpayments in 2023, the level of erroneous payments remains shockingly high.
**The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision that reins in the legal concept of Chevron deference and will reduce overreaching regulations from federal agencies that lack congressional authority.
NCBA President Mark Eisele says elected officials in Congress should make laws, not un-elected bureaucrats at federal agencies.
He adds cattle producers have experienced numerous instances of overreaching regulations from federal agencies, exceeding their authority granted by Congress.
