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From Breitbart: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins told Breitbart News exclusively on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration is exploring ways for the federal government to stop China from purchasing American farmland.
Rollins, in her first non-trade publication exclusive print interview, said that “no doubt” people are concerned about this and rightly want American farmland to be owned by Americans, not foreigners, especially those loyal to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Rollins said that Trump deserves major credit for reorienting worldwide discussions and viewpoints about the threat of the CCP on the world stage, as he began exposing this in his first run for president back in 2016 and during his first administration and in the ensuing years since and now in the second administration has continued this focus.
“Let’s just take a step back and give a little bit more credit to President Trump,” Rollins said. “If we’re looking back in history nine or 10 years ago, when he first came down that escalator in New York City and started talking about China as a massive threat not just to our national security but to everything—to our food security, to everything—and I remember as I’m a longtime Reagan conservative, a leader on policy in Texas for all those years before I met President Trump, people weren’t really talking about China. Not many people, at least, in that way. President Trump brought an entirely new context to the conversation on what we need to do to put America First. In fact, China may not be the really good player that a lot of the free market believers had suggested they were, so to answer your question directly I think a wholesale across-the-board very deep look at where China’s influence is, especially in the last decade, which is very concerning, is extremely important.”
The report explains that several individual states, including South Dakota and Florida, have passed laws barring China from buying farmland in their states.
Now Rollins says the Trump administration is looking at ways to tackle the issue on a federal level.
Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) responded to the report, writing, “I applaud @SecRollins for taking action to stop the Chinese Communist Party from buying up our prime farm ground. Hostile foreign powers should never be allowed to control critical American assets like our food production!”
I applaud @SecRollins for taking action to stop the Chinese Communist Party from buying up our prime farm ground.
Hostile foreign powers should never be allowed to control critical American assets like our food production! https://t.co/99mue7WUrM pic.twitter.com/JIVWav4Fr6
— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) February 18, 2025
Meanwhile, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blasted out a fierce ultimatum to China last month, and threatened to take back any farmland they have purchased.
“We’re demanding $25 billion in penalties for the harm China caused to Americans during COVID-19. If they don’t pay up, we’ll start seizing Chinese assets – like farmland – instead,” Bailey wrote.
MORE HERE: https://t.co/vwm3f3CuOq
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) January 28, 2025
.@SecRollins: USDA Exploring ‘Federal Solution’ to Stopping China from Purchasing U.S. Farmland https://t.co/JviMvshrpf
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 18, 2025
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