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TribCast: Sid Miller’s THC entanglements

In this week’s episode, Matthew and Eleanor speak with Texas Tribune reporter Kate McGee about her recent investigative reporting in to Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and his staff.

The Texas Tribune

Farmers still waiting on flood 'rapid' recovery grants

A state agriculture minister has conceded the government's delivery of financial aid to farmers hit by May's devastating floods has been too slow.

AAP

State Ag employees told police they were wary of Sid Miller’s political consultant. Now he’s the agency’s chief of staff.

Todd Smith was Miller’s longtime political consultant when he admitted to soliciting bribes for licenses the agency typically issues for $100. Miller then put him on the payroll at $218,000 per year.

The Texas Tribune

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RFK Jr will not target ultra-processed foods or pesticides in latest MAHA efforts, report says

Health secretary backing away from cracking down on fast food and crop sprays, according to draft report

The Independent UK

USDA spent thousands on giant Trump banners as it was cutting aid to schools and food banks, report says

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins previously cheered over the banners, saying, ‘President Trump’s bold vision is ushering in a Golden Age for our farmers’

The Independent UK

Macron signs agriculture law, upholds ban on controversial pesticide

French President Emmanuel Macron has signed into law a modified agriculture bill that bars a banned pesticide from being reintroduced. The move comes after the Constitutional Council – the country’s highest court – struck down the clause last week, ruling it violated France’s environmental charter.

Radio France Internationale

Trump’s agriculture secretary doubles down on suggestion people should work on farms to avoid losing Medicaid

Comments come after Secretary of Agriculture suggested last month that Medicaid recipients and automation would replace undocumented farm workers facing mass deportation

The Independent UK

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Capitol Lens | Sunflower power - Roll Call

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins greets vendors at the Great American Farmers Market on the National Mall on Monday.

Roll Call

First three fiscal 2026 appropriations bills pass Senate - Roll Call

The Senate passed its first fiscal 2026 spending bills, making up for lost time in the long-delayed process before preparing to leave town.

Roll Call

Former Sid Miller allies told police the ag commissioner feared the DEA, told a friend to get rid of marijuana

Miller denies wrongdoing after allegations surfaced during an investigation into one of his aides, who pled guilty to bribery. The agriculture commissioner has not been charged with a crime.

The Texas Tribune

Trump’s push for more deportations could boost demand for foreign farmworkers with ‘guest worker’ visas

The U.S. has an important choice to make regarding agriculture.

The Conversation

Republicans ready assault on California animal welfare law - Roll Call

California's Proposition 12 and federal efforts to counter it have sparked strong emotions on both sides of the issue.

Roll Call

‘ICE Barbie’ gets a challenger: AG Secretary Brooke Rollins takes to X to show off snake-hunting adventure

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is pulling a page out of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s playbook with a photo-op from her recent hunting trip

The Independent UK

House passes three crypto bills with varying Democratic support - Roll Call

House passage of the measures marks a breakthrough for the digital assets sector and sends one of the bills to President Donald Trump.

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Senate GOP pushes spending bills as Democratic anger builds - Roll Call

Senate GOP appropriators to bring a package of spending bills to the floor before the August recess, Chair Susan Collins said Thursday.

Roll Call

Crypto, Defense bills back on track after Oval Office talk - Roll Call

Three cryptocurrency bills and the Defense spending bill appeared ready for House floor action after stalling out for much of Tuesday.

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Trump delivers brutal blow to farmworkers amid fierce White House immigration battle

All in the name of making America great again.

International Business Times

SCOTUS Hands Trump A Power Play—But Are The Checks Vanishing?

The Trump administration is now free to proceed with planning "reductions in force" at departments like Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and the State Department.

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The Independent UK

Can Trump’s exemptions for undocumented farm laborers succeed without angering MAGA?

President planning program to support agricultural laborers in the U.S. illegally – but risks angering MAGA

LiveScience

RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.

Capital & Main

Uncertain Harvest: Agriculture’s Season of Gloom

While Trump considers expelling undocumented farm workers, California’s economy hangs in the balance.

The Independent UK

America set to open Texas ‘fly factory’ in bid to breed millions of insects

The plan is to breed millions of the insects near the border with Mexico

The Independent UK

Trump U-turn on deporting farm workers came after fury from Noem and Miller, report claims

Trump’s policy barring raids on agriculture and hospitality industries was short-lived

The Texas Tribune

THC ban will destroy Texas' hemp agriculture industry, farmers say

While state leaders say growers can still produce industrial hemp, farmers say they will quit growing the plant altogether under a total THC ban.

Euronews

What's behind farmers' protests returning to the streets of Brussels?

European farmers are set to return to the streets of Brussels, nearly a year after their major demonstrations. Their main concern: the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the risk of a fragmented, "27-speed" agriculture system across the EU.

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