H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.
The FDA has lost nearly 4,300 employees and USDA's meat inspection service about 900 since the start of 2025. On June 4, both Wisconsin Republicans voted for a bill cutting the agriculture and FDA budget another 1.4% — one that, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses 'to account for staffing reductions.'
Cline posted about a Farm Bureau listening session on Sunday afternoon. At 3:21 p.m. the Virginia Cattlemen's Association — headquartered a ten-minute drive from his house — warned that Trump's plan to import 300,000 metric tons of ground beef will hurt producers. Cline voted to strip the House of its power to vote on Trump's tariffs for the rest of that session.
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.
