A contentious pesticide provision that was removed from a government funding bill in January has again been stripped from proposed legislation at the behest of President Donald Trump's own "Make America Healthy Again" movement.
The House of Representatives passed the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, known colloquially as the "farm bill," on April 30, the first time such extensive agriculture legislation could become law since Trump's first presidency.
Passed with a 224-200 vote, the bill now goes to the Senate, where lawmakers both across and within party lines have butted heads on several provisions of the legislation.
One of the largest sticking points of the bill was what critics called a "loophole" that protected pesticide companies like Bayer, which has contended with many lawsuits alleging that its Roundup herbicide products, which contain the chemical glyphosate, cause cancer.
In February, Trump issued an executive order prioritizing the U.S. production of glyphosate, saying the herbicide was critical to the nation’s security. A similar provision shielding pesticide companies nearly derailed a government funding bill the previous month, but was ultimately killed before being reintroduced in the farm bill.
