The Senate Agriculture Committee's farm bill died 10-11. Tuberville was present for other parts of the markup but not for the final vote. Updated August 22: all eight of Alabama's food banks asked him by name for a SNAP waiver. Britt — who isn't on the Agriculture Committee — replied. Tuberville, who is, did not.
A front-row audience member started booing when Fischbach defended Trump's tariffs as leverage. The Constitution gives Congress the power over tariffs, and she sits on the subcommittee that handles them. She used her time to say ag is 'usually a winner.'
At the Farmfest governor forum six days before the primary, Lindell closed with a satanic statue, a false claim about Amy Klobuchar and a documentary, and an $80 million boast from a man who tells judges he's broke.
A 50% tariff on Canadian goods hits August 19, justified partly by Canada's 'protectionist dairy system.' Bohanan Farm in Hopkinton buys its grain and fertilizer from Canada. Kelly Ayotte says she disagrees with the tariffs — and has declined every chance to do something about them.
Bruce Rastetter's carbon pipeline company won the power of eminent domain over Iowa farmland. FEC records show he's given Hinson's committees $56,200 — and he hosted her August 5 Senate fundraiser.
In March 2022, a check from Summit's Bruce Rastetter landed in Joe Mitchell's campaign account. Eight days later he cast the lone Republican committee vote against protecting Iowa landowners from the CO2 pipeline's eminent domain.
Finstad kept promising farmers the pain was temporary — from April 2025 through February 2026. He voted twice to protect the tariffs causing it, while Chinese orders for the fall soybean harvest sat at zero.
Wisconsin ranks 13th of 50 on the measures we track — one of the better states in the country. All six of its Republicans in Congress just voted to spend that down.
The Trump administration cancelled a farmer-training grant in Iowa City as 'wasteful spending' — the same district Mariannette Miller-Meeks represents while she cheers on the cuts.
