We all know just how expensive going to the store to buy some beef for dinner and we all have been waiting for something to be done….well Donny has done something….and not everyone is happy….
President Trump’s latest move to tackle grocery costs is triggering a rare, public split with some of his own party’s most loyal allies. The president has temporarily lifted tariffs on up to 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef, saying the imports will be sold at 25% below current market prices and give domestic herds “space” to recover as the US faces its smallest cattle inventory in decades, per the Guardian. Key Republicans from ranching states say the plan undercuts that very goal.
Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso argues Americans want domestic beef, not cheaper foreign cuts, while Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts warns that “flooding” the market with imports will hurt local producers (a sentiment echoed by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association) and doesn’t amount to a real fix. Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy, describing most ranchers as “MAGA Republicans,” says he’s counseled Trump against the move for a year. Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie calls it “a slap in the face to American cattlemen & consumers.”
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins defends the decision as a short-term way to get prices down but acknowledges she doesn’t yet know which countries will supply the beef, saying that call falls to US trade officials. At USA Today, columnist Rex Huppke raises concerns about the source and safety of the “mystery meat,” but primarily argues Trump is caught in a “hypocrisy turducken” in claiming that lifting beef tariffs will reduce prices for Americans. This “wholly undercuts his incessant claims that tariffs don’t affect consumers,” he writes.
American cattle ranchers are not happy with this decision. Why is that?
My concern is since most of the programs on food have been gutted will this beef be safe for us to consume?
How many think that the price of beef will come down?
Will we be paying premium price for low quality beef?
If it is not inspected what will be the outcome?
A bunch of questions with few answers right now.
But knowing how Donny works there will be massive amounts of profit in there somewhere….
Thoughts?
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It is no coincidence as far as I am concerned that those 300,000 metric tonnes of beef are part (or all) of the same shipment that was refused by China for containing antibiotics that are illegal to administer to cows in most countries. Trump was presumably offered a second-hand deal by Milei, and then tried to dress it up as doing something good about food prices.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/08/26/trump-importing-beef-argentina/
Best wishes, Pete.
USDA just recalled about 30,000 lbs of Argentine beef…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/usda-recalls-30-000-pounds-125222516.html An interesting story…..chuq
There are a lot of problems with this “300,000 tons” of beef.
First is that no one knows where the hell it is going to come from. The secretary of agriculture admitted flat out that she had no idea what was going on. There are indications this is just Turnip talking out of his ass again and making shit up.
Second, the US uses about 10 million tons of ground beef per year. So Turnip’s 300,000 tons is only about 3% of the annual amount we use every year. That is an utterly insignificant amount that is going to have absolutely ZERO effect on the price of beef.
This is typical political bull shit. It’s politicians pretending they’re doing something when in reality they’re doing nothing at all to solve the actual problem.
Gf….something else to think about….https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/usda-recalls-30-000-pounds-125222516.html?
How much of the new stuff will be just as bad? chuq
Boy, has he really screwed over our farmers, who overwhelmingly supported his disastrous presidency….the illegal Iran war has sent fuel and fertilizer prices skyrocketing, his insane tariffs have cratered foreign demand for our goods, and now he is undermining the US cattle industry by flooding America with cheap beef, grown who knows where and how…FRUMP has destroyed every single thing he has touched…shame on the 30% who say they still support him…
But will they still support him when push comes to shove in November 2028? chuq