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It's only a fraction of the proposed 2018 federal budget, but the Trump Administration is proposing to cut spending on two key things that are important to the whisky industry. The proposed budget cuts the Treasury Department's Tax & Trade Bureau (TTB) funding by 7% and eliminates $5 million in earmarked funding that helped cut label and formula approval times the last two years from around 2 months to 10 days or so. It also eliminates all funding for the Agriculture Department's market access programs that help promote exports of U.S. agriculture products (including whiskies and other distilled spirits). Congress is expected to keep those programs in place, but nothing is certain... Here's our story...

June 23, 2017 – The annual budget battle between the White House and Capitol Hill is escalating to a new level this summer as the Trump Administration seeks significant cuts in domestic spend…

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We have now confirmed a Bloomberg News report that the owners of WhistlePig Rye are looking at offers to sell the Vermont-based distillery and its whiskey brands...

June 23, 2017 – The owners of WhistlePig Rye, the occasionally controversial but highly regarded Vermont whiskey distiller and bottler, have decided to consider offers for the brand and the W…

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