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The 119th Congress may move to amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of Agriculture as a member of the Foreign Investment in the U.S.
HR 1713 is designed to include the Sec. of Agriculture “with respect to a covered transaction that involves (a) agricultural land, (c) agricultural biotechnology, and (c) the agricultural industry, including agricultural transportation, storage and processing. It appears the resolution is focused on mitigating further purchases of U.S. agricultural land by foreign persons from the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation or the Islamic Republic of Iran. (MORE POLLS: Do you want religious freedom laws in your state?)
The move comes months after President Donald Trump elected Brooke Rollins to run the Department of Agriculture. Rollins is a former senior aid to Trump, and CEO of the America First Policy Institute. “We’ve had at AFPI the last few years been focusing on ag lands that the purchase of, you know, agricultural lands all over this country, some of them near our military bases,” she said in 2024, according to Roll Call.
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