Ohio farmers are paying more for fertilizer, steel and machinery because of the tariffs, and China stopped buying their soybeans entirely. Husted voted three times to keep the tariffs. Then the president waived the one on imported ground beef.
Lahn ran the Koch group's Montana branch and fought Medicaid expansion there. Now he runs for Iowa governor as an anti-corporate populist — while Koch is one of four firms holding 84% of North America's nitrogen fertilizer capacity.
Evans visited a Weld County feedlot, a cheese importer, the home builders and Leprino Foods — all hurt by tariffs. On February 10 he voted twice to keep the House from voting on those tariffs until August. Three Republicans broke ranks, the vote happened anyway, and Evans voted no.
The self-described only dairyman in Congress represents a district that is more than 65% Latino and runs on farm labor. When Border Patrol raided it, he asked for advance notice. Then he cast a deciding vote for the $70 billion Secure America Act.
Soybeans alone cost Indiana $347 million in lost exports in one year. Stutzman called the tariffs a matter of other countries realizing 'they need us as a partner' — and, after the Supreme Court threw the tariffs out, told Bloomberg the ruling was not good for Indiana farmers and that he would be happy to help the president.
The chairman of the House China committee wrote a bill to slap 35% to 100% tariffs on Chinese goods. Michigan farmers lost three straight years in the soybean market, and he went after the Midwest nonprofit that ran the farm trade roundtables.
John Oliver called Womack out by name in 2015 over the spending-bill rider that blocked the USDA from enforcing protections for poultry growers. In July 2026 the USDA moved to scrap those protections for good — and Womack has said nothing.
The farm supports went into Trump's budget bill and passed with a simple majority. Food aid got cut $187 billion. Then Frank Lucas voted for a 'skinny' farm bill that doesn't put back a dime — while 45,277 households in his own district are on SNAP.
For nearly two decades, a line buried in the farm bill has stopped the USDA from giving Fort Reno back to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. The 2026 version from Frank Lucas's committee deletes the expiration date.