House strips MAHA-hated pesticide provisions from farm bill
The House of Representatives on Thursday stripped a set of controversial provisions aimed toward defending pesticide producers from the farm billfollowing Make America Healthy Again rebellion that would have sunk the broader bundle.
The modification led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to strip the language was handed by a vote of 280-142, after a bipartisan groundswell of opposition from legislators and MAHA advocates who stated the provisions amounted to a “liability shield” to guard Bayer from allegations that its Roundup herbicide and its chemical glyphosate trigger most cancers. The broader farm bill cleared the House Thursday morning by a vote of 224-200.
Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, who was serving to lead the push to strip the pesticide language for Democrats, stated the language represented a “handout to big agriculture, to big chemicals.”
“It preempts states’ rights to regulate pesticide usage or labeling [and] provides a liability shield for pesticide manufacturers,” Pingree stated on the House ground. “Put simply, this language puts chemical company profits over the health of Americans.”
An indication protesting Chairman Glenn Thompson’s Farm Bill in Washington DC, on April 30, 2026.
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A litany of lawsuits over years have claimed glyphosate causes most cancers and Bayer and Monsanto, which manufactured Roundup earlier than the German pharmaceutical large acquired it, have ceaselessly been discovered chargeable for failing to warn of most cancers danger. The Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t classify glyphosate as a carcinogen and doesn’t require labels to reveal most cancers danger, however the World Health Organization‘s International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015 stated the chemical is “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
The language within the bill would have prohibited any states and courts from penalizing or holding “liable any entity for failing to comply with requirements that would require labeling or packaging that is in addition to or different from the labeling or packaging approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
Chairman Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa. talks earlier than the beginning of the House Agriculture Committee marking the “Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025” within the Longworth House Office Building on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
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House Agriculture Chair GT Thompson pushed again on the modification, arguing to reporters Wednesday evening that placing the supply could be “such a blow to the American farmer.” Thompson repeatedly pushed again on accusations that the language represented a legal responsibility defend, arguing it might forestall solely “frivolous lawsuits” and that “bad actors” might nonetheless be sued.
Nevertheless, Thompson nonetheless celebrated the passage of the farm bill, saying in an x post that it’s “a win for our farmers, ranchers, foresters, rural communities, and all Americans across our country.”
Glyphosate is essentially the most generally used herbicide within the US The White House and the MAHA coalition that supported President donald trump after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the 2024 election have suffered to rift since Trump backed glyphosate manufacturing in February.
Earlier this week, the White House argued on behalf of Bayer on the Supreme Court in a courtroom case that would make it far more durable to sue the corporate over most cancers claims.
The farm bill now heads to the Senate.
