Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 7/24/19

The two-year budget deal hammered out after weeks of talks between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin would accomplish three things: end the threat of automatic spending cuts; raise the debt ceiling until the end of July 2021; and set an annual $1.4 trillion budget cap — about $632 billion of which would be allocated to non-defense spending at agencies like USDA and FDA.

The House, however, has already sliced its fiscal 2020 pie into a dozen pieces before the tentative budget deal, The House passed a $24.3 billion USDA-FDA funding bill, H.R. 3164 (116), last month. That total will have to change ahead of the Sept. 30 funding deadline, because Senate action and a bicameral compromise still await.

No 'poison pills': In inking the budget deal this week, congressional leaders agreed that final spending legislation won't include any controversial policies or changes in mandatory programs that were not included for the current fiscal year.

The House USDA-FDA bill would bar agencies from wiping out current climate change information and block USDA from moving its Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture to the Kansas City area, though that move is likely to be carried out before the bill is enacted.

What are the odds? Mnuchin on Tuesday emphasized Trump's support for the budget deal in a meeting with Republican senators, aiming to tamp down conservative opposition to the large spending increases, POLITICO reports. Mnuchin's appearance on Capitol Hill was part of a broader White House push to sell the plan to lawmakers in both parties before voting starts as early as Thursday.