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.
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.