Trump officials consider scrapping beef import plan as GOP midterm panic spreads
White House weighs rolling back a 90-day foreign beef import proposal amid backlash from GOP-aligned beef producers.
What to know
- Trump's 90-day beef import plan, designed to lower hamburger prices before the midterms, is being reconsidered after facing backlash from U.S. beef producers—a key GOP constituency.
- The White House is simultaneously pursuing a 90-day diesel export ban despite little evidence it will lower prices and real risk it could raise them, reflecting GOP desperation on cost-of-living issues.
- Senate Republicans face dire midterm polling with few legislative tools available to improve their electoral prospects in the remaining preelection period.
“We don't know what's going to happen in the midterms. But we know for a fact that today you can watch the hilarity of the collapse of so many of Trump's plans and cheap, or corrupt, midterms gambits.”
Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo editor · Talking Points Memo ↗ · Sep 22
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Joesley Batista Brazilian beef industry figureU.S. beef producers GOP constituencySenate Republicans Congressional majority
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White House pursues 90-day diesel export ban despite skepticism
As midterm prospects grow bleaker, the administration is moving toward a 90-day ban on diesel fuel exports, despite economic consensus that it is unlikely to reduce prices and may increase them, driven by GOP candidates' need to address voter concerns about energy costs.
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White House considers scrapping beef import plan
Facing pressure from GOP-aligned beef producers, Trump officials began weighing whether to roll back the beef import plan entirely.
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Beef producers oppose import plan as GOP constituency revolts — U.S. beef producers, a key GOP constituency, pushed back against the plan after realizing it would lower prices of their product ahead of the midterms, driving the White House toward reconsidering the proposal.
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Trump rolls out 90-day beef import plan — Trump announced a plan to institute a 90-day import surge of foreign beef, reportedly as a sweetheart deal with Brazilian beef industry figure Joesley Batista, designed to engineer a short-lived drop in hamburger prices ahead of the midterms.