GOP, Democrats team up to block China from buying up US farmland
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Reps. Abigail Spanberger and Dale Strong are leading the effort in the House of Representatives to block foreign adversaries from purchasing U.S. farmland.
Spanberger and Rep. Dale Strong, R-Ala., are introducing the bill on the House side, while a companion bill was introduced by a group of three Republican senators and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., in the upper chamber. It is a signal that Congress is seeing ownership of U.S. agricultural land by some countries as a growing threat at a time when the U.S. is still dealing with high consumer prices and shaky supply chains. Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital.
In addition to stopping people and companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party from buying U.S. farmland, the bill would block similar purchases out of Iran, North Korea and Russia and prohibit actors associated with the oppressive regimes from participating in certain programs directed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.