The Senate Agriculture Committee began its markup of a proposed farm bill in a partisan logjam over Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program costs. The impasse drastically dims the outlook for congressional passage of a farm bill this year. Republicans say the financial penalty from last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act is needed to incentivize states to lower their payment error rates. Boozman last week added a provision to his proposed Farm Bill 2.0 that would give certain states a one-year delay. “I want to be clear -- a two-year delay does not have the support of the majority in Congress or of the White House.