WASHINGTONPOST (Annie Gowen) - Ranchers’ loyalty to Trump wavers as some bristle over beef imports
Rural Americans, including some who say they feel “betrayed” by Washington policies, could seek change at the polls in November.
Rural Americans, including some who say they feel “betrayed” by Washington policies, could seek change at the polls in November.
“Illegal and politically motivated”
Trump’s answer to soaring beef prices: import frozen foreign trimmings that could have been in storage for years—and grind them into American burgers.
Trump’s answer to soaring beef prices: import frozen foreign trimmings that could have been in storage for years—and grind them into American burgers.
The U.S. is the world's largest consumer of beef by volume and the second-largest importer.
Whatever the administration's real actions turn out to be, somewhere past the sixty day mark when these orders might turn into policies, Congress continues to just sit there like a speed bump.
President Trump on Friday signed two executive orders aimed at supporting American cattle ranchers and addressing record-high beef prices. The actions serve partly to pacify domestic meat producers who were angered by a recent administration plan to pause tariffs on foreign beef imports. The order allows ranchers to bypass major meatpacking monopolies and makes it easier for them to process and sell their own meat directly to consumers. Politico's Grace Yarrow joins LiveNOW's Andy Mac to discuss.
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Republicans are warning President Donald Trump that his decision to flood supermarkets with foreign ground beef is hurting a key group in his base as the midterm elections near their climax. Voters in beef-industry-heavy states, like South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, supported Trump in his bid for a second term. Now, lawmakers from those states say his decision to lift tariffs on hundreds of thousands of tons of foreign beef is putting the very people who elected him in a bind. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., who is running for re-election, said his voters in South Dakota "love the president," and view him like a member of the family, but the beef import order feels like the administration "pulled the rug right out from underneath" them.
President Trump said Friday that tariff-free imported beef will be coming from Brazil and Argentina, among other places, as his administration works to alleviate stubbornly high prices. “It’s coming from Argentina. It's coming from Brazil,” Trump said at an Oval Office event surrounded by ranchers and farmers. “It's coming from a couple of other places. [...]