” this week to highlight how Republicans’ betrayal and broken promises to America’s agricultural industry is creating more opportunities for Democrats to compete and win across the country.
See highlights from Chair DelBene’s conversation below:
Rep. DelBene says Trump administration policies have been ‘devastating’ for farmers
“The administration, Republicans in the Congress, haven’t been at all focused on helping farmers.”
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“Access to markets, making sure we’re having sound trade policy, getting rid of the tariffs, making sure that we have policies to support our farmers so that they’re able to make a living right now, we see family farmers going out of business more and more under this administration. Making sure that there’s a workforce available to help our farmers. All of these things are interconnected.”
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“We have incredible candidates running in these [farm] districts, folks like Christina Bohannan, Sarah Trone Garriott, Lindsey James in Iowa […].”
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“Jamie Ager, our candidate in North Carolina, 11. He is a farmer. He is running actually to help support farmers and the agricultural community that has been hit so hard. Hurricane Helene hitting North Carolina. Republicans doing nothing. Rebecca Cooke up in Wisconsin. We have folks who are running actually and talking about policies specifically to help our ag communities.”
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“Prices skyrocketing, fertilizer prices, that’s the result of tariffs and the war in Iran.”
