Hoeven Working to Secure Ag Disaster Assistance in Continuing Resolution

Hoeven Working to Secure Ag Disaster Assistance in Continuing Resolution

Senator Working with Senate Appropriations and Agriculture Committee Colleagues to Address Producer Losses, Urges Farmers & Ranchers to Advance Priority with Senators

BISMARCK, N.D. - Senator John Hoeven today released the following statement regarding ongoing efforts to secure agriculture disaster assistance in the Continuing Resolution being prepared by the Senate Appropriations Committee. As Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, Hoeven is working with his colleagues to address producer losses resulting from natural disasters and challenging markets.

"As farmers have faced growing and serious losses this year, we have put forward a package of $12 billion of relief for economic losses and $16 billion in weather-related assistance that we're working to secure in the end-year Continuing Resolution. Republican leadership has supported this offer, and we have made a straightforward proposal to Democratic leadership to come to the aid of farmers and ranchers across the country. While we have kept this proposal clean of potentially partisan additions, we have not yet received the Democratic support we need. We encourage the nation's farmers, ranchers, and agriculture stakeholders to let their representatives know how critical it is for the Continuing Resolution to include both economic and weather agriculture assistance for America's producers," said Hoeven.

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