"To make matters worse, American agriculture has been pounded by years of extreme weather"
Republicans want to strip environmental funds from the farm bill.
Sure, it's not like protecting the environment will ease extreme weather. I wonder if they remember the dust bowl of the 1930s?
https://thehill.com/policy/future-of-farming/3903800-five-fights-brewing-in-the-crucial-1-4-trillion-farm-bill/