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Members warn trade actions and USAID pauses could ripple through farm markets and food aid channels
Summary
Committee members and witnesses said recent tariff threats and freezes at USAID risk reducing export markets and U.S. commodity purchases for food aid, harming both export demand and humanitarian programs that buy U.S. commodities.
Several members raised the risk that threatened tariffs and administrative pauses at USAID and other federal bodies could reduce demand for U.S. commodities abroad and cut markets that many farmers rely on.
Representative Steven Horsford and others cited USAID programs that purchase U.S. commodities for global food assistance — a market worth roughly $2 billion per year in purchases,…
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