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Lawmakers fault tariff-driven price shocks and seek oversight after administration’s Argentina action
Summary
Members told the House Agriculture Committee that tariffs and trade disruptions have worsened farm incomes, criticized a $40 billion Argentina currency action, and urged oversight of USDA reorganization and equitable farm-aid distribution to specialty crops.
Several representatives told the House Committee on Agriculture that recent tariff policy and trade developments have hurt U.S. farmers and that administration responses have been misdirected.
Representative Jim Costa (CA) described food and trade as "a national security issue," criticized an administration farm-bridge assistance program he said provided $12 billion domestically while referenced foreign support to Argentina was about "$40,000,000,000," and said specialty…
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