Trump, Congress, and the hemp ban

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intoxicating products — with shutdown politics as leverage.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">Nine months ago, Congress cleared a bill to close a loophole created in 2018 that allowed the sale of some hemp-derived products containing types of THC colloquially known as “diet weed.” That ban is supposed to take effect in mid-November, or roughly 11 weeks, to limit overall THC levels in hemp products that can get people high — including gummies, canned drinks, pills and vapes.</p><div style="" class="flex flex-col mb-5 pt-[1.25rem] md:mb-[1.875rem] md:pt-[1.875rem]"><div id="mrec5-wrap" role="group" class="content-group ad relative flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col before:inset-0 before:right-0 before:z-10 before:block before:w-full before:pb-2.5 before:text-center before:text-sm before:leading-[1.05rem] before:text-gray-vulcan-44 before:content-[attr(data-ad-label)]" data-ad-label="Advertisement" aria-label="Advertisement"><div id="mrec5" class="relative" data-ad-refresh="30" aria-hidden="true" data-target="pos=5"></div></div></div><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">But <!--[-->Trump<!--]--> and industry leaders successfully lobbied Senate leaders to add language to a government funding patch earlier this month to delay the ban until mid-December, with the administration promising instead to finalize regulations cracking down on how the products are made and sold.</p><!--]--></div></div><div class="article-row-with-three-columns__right-column hidden md:flex md:flex-col" data-testid="article-column-right" data-v-8d32737f><div class="mx-auto w-full text-left flex flex-col gap-5" data-v-8d32737f><!--[--><!--]--></div></div></div></div><!--]--><!--[--><div class="article-row-with-three-columns w-full" data-v-8d32737f><div class="mx-auto max-w-[1350px] gap-x-[30px] px-5 sm:px-[30px] md:grid md:grid-cols-[1fr,300px] lg:grid-cols-[300px,1fr,300px]" data-testid="article-column-left" data-v-8d32737f><div class="hidden lg:block" data-v-8d32737f><div class="mx-auto w-full text-left" data-v-8d32737f><!--[--><!--]--></div></div><div class="mx-auto w-full max-w-[630px] text-left" data-testid="article-column-center" data-v-8d32737f><div class="mx-auto w-full text-left" data-v-8d32737f><!--[--><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">Now House Republican leaders are <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/08/26/congress/house-cr-vote-01050571" class="text-[var(--color-link-default)]"><!--[--><span style="text-decoration:underline;">aiming to clear that bill</span><!--]--></a> for <!--[-->Trump<!--]-->’s signature early next week, according to three people granted anonymity to disclose private discussions. And many GOP lawmakers are not pleased at the prospect of being rolled.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">Rep. <!--[-->Riley Moore<!--]--> (R-W.Va.) told reporters last week that he expected House lawmakers would “iron out” some “sticking points” with the Senate-passed funding bill, “particularly the hemp issue,” rather than pass the legislation without changes — which appears to be GOP leadership’s current plan.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">Sen. <!--[-->Ted Budd<!--]--> (R-N.C.) was more blunt: “it is morally reprehensible to threaten a shutdown over a loophole Congress agreed to close to less than a year ago,” he said in a statement Thursday.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">Yet despite fierce pushback from lawmakers warning that the intoxicating products are harming Americans, hemp industry leaders are preparing for a victory, betting members of Congress ultimately care more about swiftly passing legislation to avert a Sept. 30 government shutdown before the midterms.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">“Any effort to try to shut down the government — over a one-month delay on a hemp issue — I don’t think is going to fly well with most members of Congress,” <!--[-->Jonathan Miller<!--]-->, a top lawyer for the U.S. Hemp Roundtable advocacy group, said in an interview this week.</p><div style="" class="flex flex-col mb-5 pt-[1.25rem] md:mb-[1.875rem] md:pt-[1.875rem] min-h-[11.45rem] sm:min-h-[10.2625rem] md:min-h-[11.45rem] md:hidden ml-[calc(50%-50vw)] w-screen max-w-none"><div id="banner_btf_201-wrap" role="group" class="content-group ad relative flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col before:inset-0 before:right-0 before:z-10 before:block before:w-full before:pb-2.5 before:text-center before:text-sm before:leading-[1.05rem] before:text-gray-vulcan-44 before:content-[attr(data-ad-label)]" data-ad-label="Advertisement" aria-label="Advertisement"><div id="banner_btf_201" class="relative" aria-hidden="true" data-target="pos=201"></div></div></div><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">The White House did not respond to a request for comment about its plans for imposing new rules on hemp products in the coming months. But the <!--[-->Trump<!--]--> administration is expected to need more time than mid-December to finalize regulations, so hemp industry representatives are discussing a “regulatory bridge” that would impose temporary rules while continuing to avoid a full ban, according to <!--[-->Miller<!--]-->.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">That could include restricting purchase to adults age 21 and older, blocking imports from China, mandating certain manufacturing practices, cracking down on copycat products that look like popular candy or potato chips and requiring transparency in product labeling.</p><!--]--></div></div><div class="article-row-with-three-columns__right-column hidden md:flex md:flex-col" data-testid="article-column-right" data-v-8d32737f><div class="mx-auto w-full text-left flex flex-col gap-5" data-v-8d32737f><!--[--><div style="" 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text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">While lawmakers have been back home over their summer break, hemp industry leaders have fanned out across the country to make their case for this plan. “The hemp industry does not have an August recess,” <!--[-->Christopher Lackner<!--]-->, head of the Hemp Beverage Alliance, <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-agriculture/2026/08/17/the-hemp-industry-does-not-have-an-august-recess-01038954" class="text-[var(--color-link-default)]"><!--[--><span style="text-decoration:underline;">said in an interview this month</span><!--]--></a> of the group’s work to facilitate passage of the Senate-passed funding bill.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]"><!--[-->Trump<!--]--> administration officials have also been telling reluctant lawmakers they will use the one-month delay to work on regulations. “The White House has committed to me that they’re committed to regulate the industry,” Sen. <!--[-->Rick Scott<!--]--> (R-Fla.) said in an interview this month.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">Sen. <!--[-->Pete Ricketts<!--]--> (R-Neb.), who fought in the Senate to retain the ban as originally intended, said White House officials have said “they don’t want another extension, and I agree with that.”</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">In a statement, <!--[-->Ricketts<!--]--> said that “manufactured high-THC products like gummies and drinks are putting our kids in the hospital” and need to be taken “off our shelves.”</p><div style="" class="flex flex-col mb-5 pt-[1.25rem] md:mb-[1.875rem] md:pt-[1.875rem] min-h-[11.45rem] sm:min-h-[10.2625rem] md:min-h-[11.45rem] md:hidden ml-[calc(50%-50vw)] w-screen max-w-none"><div id="banner_btf_203-wrap" role="group" class="content-group ad relative flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col before:inset-0 before:right-0 before:z-10 before:block before:w-full before:pb-2.5 before:text-center before:text-sm before:leading-[1.05rem] before:text-gray-vulcan-44 before:content-[attr(data-ad-label)]" data-ad-label="Advertisement" aria-label="Advertisement"><div id="banner_btf_203" class="relative" aria-hidden="true" data-target="pos=203"></div></div></div><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">Some supporters of the ban say the White House and industry are just employing delay tactics to get to December, when lawmakers will face another pressure campaign to delay the ban while they are motivated to avert a shutdown before leaving town for the holidays.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">“What they’re really after is to try to jam this on some must-pass, end-of-the-year funding,” <!--[-->Budd<!--]--> told reporters earlier this month. “That’s really what this is about.”</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]"><!--[-->Budd<!--]--> fought to block the delay in the Senate as part of the government funding measure, but his amendment to that end was shot down 61-32 before the chamber<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/08/senate-government-funding-01030015" class="text-[var(--color-link-default)]"><!--[--><span style="text-decoration:underline;">passed the legislation</span><!--]--></a>, sending it on for House action.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]"><!--[-->Trump<!--]--> personally called <!--[-->Budd<!--]--> after the senator filed the amendment and <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/08/05/congress/donald-trump-hemp-ban-cr-01026529" class="text-[var(--color-link-default)]"><!--[--><span style="text-decoration:underline;">talked about creating federal regulations</span><!--]--></a> for hemp products, according to a Senate aide granted anonymity to describe the private discussion.</p><!--]--></div></div><div class="article-row-with-three-columns__right-column hidden md:flex md:flex-col" data-testid="article-column-right" data-v-8d32737f><div class="mx-auto w-full text-left flex flex-col gap-5" data-v-8d32737f><!--[--><div data-testid="site-horizontal-collection" class=""><header class="flex items-center 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class="mx-auto max-w-[1350px] gap-x-[30px] px-5 sm:px-[30px] md:grid md:grid-cols-[1fr,300px] lg:grid-cols-[300px,1fr,300px]" data-testid="article-column-left" data-v-8d32737f><div class="hidden lg:block" data-v-8d32737f><div class="mx-auto w-full text-left" data-v-8d32737f><!--[--><!--]--></div></div><div class="mx-auto w-full max-w-[630px] text-left" data-testid="article-column-center" data-v-8d32737f><div class="mx-auto w-full text-left" data-v-8d32737f><!--[--><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">Days later, Budd demanded a vote on the amendment anyway and continues to slam the hemp industry.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">“It is clear that businesses that sell unregulated, intoxicating products will stop at nothing to protect their bottom line, even at the expense of children’s health and safety,” he said in a statement this week.</p><div style="" class="flex flex-col mb-5 pt-[1.25rem] md:mb-[1.875rem] md:pt-[1.875rem] min-h-[11.45rem] sm:min-h-[10.2625rem] md:min-h-[11.45rem] md:hidden ml-[calc(50%-50vw)] w-screen max-w-none"><div id="banner_btf_205-wrap" role="group" class="content-group ad relative flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col before:inset-0 before:right-0 before:z-10 before:block before:w-full before:pb-2.5 before:text-center before:text-sm before:leading-[1.05rem] before:text-gray-vulcan-44 before:content-[attr(data-ad-label)]" data-ad-label="Advertisement" aria-label="Advertisement"><div id="banner_btf_205" class="relative" aria-hidden="true" data-target="pos=205"></div></div></div><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">Besides lawmakers fighting to ban intoxicating hemp products, others are pushing alongside the White House and industry for federal regulations.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">Rep. <!--[-->Morgan Griffith<!--]--> (R-Va.) has crafted legislation that would direct the Food and Drug Administration to create federal rules for intoxicating hemp products and wants to see mandates for third-party testing, as well as new THC limits per serving.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]"><!--[-->Griffith<!--]--> told reporters Thursday the “deadline push” in the Senate-passed government funding measure “is not long enough” to finalize necessary regulations.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">Since state limits for THC vary widely throughout the country and the federal government has taken years to step in since the hemp loophole was created in 2018, <!--[-->Griffith<!--]--> argued it makes more sense to regulate the intoxicating products than to enact a federal ban.</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]">“That horse is out of the barn,” he said. “What we need to do is corral it.”</p><p data-testid="plain-text-block" class="font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]"><em>Kelsey Brugger, Amanda Friedman and Rachel Shin contributed to this report.</em></p><!--]--></div></div><div class="article-row-with-three-columns__right-column hidden md:flex md:flex-col" data-testid="article-column-right" 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