WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Adam Schiff issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff joined Senator Alex Padilla (both D-Calif.), along with U.S. Representatives Mike Thompson (D-Calif.-04) and David Valadao (R-Calif.-22), and 10 other colleagues to urge (https://www.schiff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CA-Delegation-Letter-to-USDA-re-Glassy-Winged-Sharpshooter-and-Pierces-Disease-6.16.26.pdf) the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide emergency funding to address the growing threat posed by the invasive glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) in California.
In a letter to the USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, the lawmakers requested the immediate release of $32.2 million from the Commodity Credit Corporation to ...