Last month the House Budget Committee passed its budget reconciliation package without including a renewal of the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) program.

The program expired September 30, but was brought back into discussion by several dairy state congressional members in October.

The full Senate passed its version of the budget reconciliation bill, including nearly $1 billion to create a new MILC program, on November 3. IDFA is in favor of eliminating the program, and was recently joined in its opinion by an editorial in the Wall Street Journal.