Make permanent the 2018 Farm Bill's temporary prohibition on processing fees for EBT cards.

Tony Wied · Wisconsin · Republican

policy impact 0.62 specificity 0.96 extraction confidence 99%

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Wied said the EBT Fee Free Act Amendment would make permanent the 2018 Farm Bill's temporary prohibition on processing fees for EBT cards.

This is the clearest official statement tying Wied to the promise and showing he pushed it as a permanent fix inside the committee-passed farm bill.

partial same_term A for effort

House Agriculture Committee Passes Farm Bill with Rep. Wied's Amendments Included | Congressman Tony Wied
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H.R. 7567 as passed by the House contains SEC. 4102, Prohibited Fees, which removes the fiscal-year-2023 sunset from the EBT fee ban.

The House-passed bill text carries the permanent EBT fee prohibition, which is concrete legislative progress but still falls short of enacted law.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R. 7567 engrossed House bill text
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Division E extends Agriculture Improvement Act authorities through September 30, 2026, keeping the underlying farm-bill framework temporary.

Current enacted law still only extends the 2018 Farm Bill instead of making the EBT fee ban permanent, so the promise is not fully delivered.

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Public Law 119-37, Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026
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The latest-news feed shows June 17, May 28, and May 1 items, and none of the recent public updates mention the farm bill or EBT fees.

This is an absence-based check on the current public feed: there is no fresh public sign in the lookback window that the EBT fee promise moved beyond the House-passed bill stage.

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Congressman Tony Wied homepage latest news
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Assessments

never same_term A for effort

Wied clearly tied himself to this promise and materially advanced it by offering the EBT Fee Free Act amendment, which was included in the House Agriculture Committee bill and then in the House-passed farm bill text removing the sunset on the fee ban. But the promised outcome was to make the prohibition permanent in enacted law, and the evidence shows current law still only extends the 2018 farm-bill framework temporarily rather than permanently codifying the ban. Because he made a serious legislative effort in his current term but did not secure final enactment, this counts as a failed delivery rather than a full or partial fulfillment.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 94%