The House of Representatives just voted overwhelmingly in support of a conference committee version of the 2018 farm bill.

Combined with a similarly bipartisan vote in the Senate on Tuesday, that means the bill has cleared Congress and now heads to the desk of President Donald Trump. He is expected to sign it later this week.

The final House vote—by a count of 369-47—to approve the $867 billion legislation easily overcame opposition to the bill from the House Freedom Caucus, a collection of fiscally conservative lawmakers that's probably the closest thing Congress has to a libertarian voting bloc. In a statement issued earlier Wednesday, the House Freedom Cause decried the farm bill for combining "a sprawling, cronyist agriculture bill with continued funding for welfare that belongs at the state or local level."

Many of the headlines about the farm bill have focused on the inclusion of a provision that will legalize industrial hemp—a form of cannabis that contains very low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) found in marijuana. Industrial hemp has a wide range of uses that includes making clothing, as a substitute for plastics, and as a additive to food and drinks.

As Reason's Mike Riggs put it yesterday in this space, "we should commend Congress for taking the bold step of legalizing a plant that cannot get you high but can be turned into really cool necklaces."

But, as Riggs also noted, we should condemn Congress for passing a farm bill that somehow manages to suck even more than most farm bills. The bill throws taxpayer money at farmers markets, funds five more years of federal nutritional programs, and abandons proposed changes to the food stamp program that would have imposed work requirements on some recipients—that's the welfare issue that the House Freedom Caucus was alluding to in its statement.