The Trump administration has announced that the United States will be banning China and foreign adversaries from buying up United States farmland.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Tuesday during a press conference that the US government will “take swift legislative and executive action to ban the purchase of American farmland by Chinese nationals and other foreign adversaries.”
“Standing on the shoulders of great governors, three of whom are standing behind me, who have already been leading the way on this issue and at the federal government level, working to do everything within our ability, including presidential authorities, to claw back what has already been purchased by China and other foreign adversaries,” she added.
The policy is part of a wider multi-agency approach to protect America’s farmland, foods, as well as other critical infrastructure from Chinese influence. “American agriculture is not just about feeding our families, but about protecting our nation and standing up to foreign adversaries who are buying our farmland, stealing our research, and creating dangerous vulnerabilities in the very systems that sustain us,” Rollins added during the press conference.
The effort, she said, will involve multiple agencies at the federal and state levels, and will safeguard the US agricultural industry from foreign influence, the threat of agroterrorism, and other adversarial forces.
China has bought up a wide range of farmland in the US, with much of it close to US military bases around the country, and has over 380,000 acres of farmland in the US. The farmland has been a point of concern with policy makers for multiple years, as the land could serve as a way for the CCP to conduct influence in those regions.
According to the New York Post, at least 700 foreign nationals will be kicked off of the government contracts and research agreements with USDA and 550 foreign entities will be removed as well.
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‘We’re the United States, but They Treat Us Like a Colony’: USDA Farm Security Plan Targets China’s Bioterrorism, Land Grabs
The U.S. Department of Agriculture formally announced its National Farm Security Action Plan on Tuesday, rallying top Trump administration officials, Republican governors, and lawmakers around a resolute effort to protect American farmland, food supply chains, and agricultural research from foreign threats, especially Communist China.
“American agriculture, in American hands, is a positive good,” said Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. “Every family, every home, every community, depends upon what our farmers do, and they support and sustain us, not merely by keeping us materially fed, but by keeping us spiritually strong. That’s exactly why it is under threat—from criminals, political adversaries, and hostile regimes.”
In addition to unveiling the USDA National Farm Security Action Plan, Rollins revealed she is now officially a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who has pushed for her inclusion, described CFIUS as “a group of high-ranking Cabinet members in the White House that determine who buys what” and insisted the agriculture secretary needs to be at the table “to protect our farmland.” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) echoed that support.
Counselor to the President Peter Navarro warned that the Chinese Communist Party has used American supply chains and food systems as weapons against the United States. “We’re the United States, but they treat us like a colony,” Navarro asserted, pointing to the Chinese acquisition of Smithfield Foods and Syngenta. “Seeds really can be the revolution that keeps the world fed—and China now owns a key part of it.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi shared that two Chinese nationals were recently charged in Michigan for attempting to smuggle potential agroterrorism weapons into the country. Soon after, a Chinese citizen was arrested for sending packages of concealed biological materials into the United States. “We will prosecute you. We will hold you accountable,” Bondi vowed, adding that the FBI has opened over 100 biosmuggling investigations in recent years.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth underscored the national security stakes of foreign land purchases near U.S. military installations. “As someone who’s charged with leading the Defense Department, I want to know who owns the land around our bases and strategic bases. We would be asleep at the wheel if we were not fully a party to an effort like this to ensure that our nation had the food supply it needs.No longer can foreign adversaries assume we’re not watching and we’re not paying attention and we’re not doing something about it.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a lifelong farmer and rancher, emphasized that her experience shaped her belief that food policy is national security policy. “A country that cannot feed itself, cannot take care of itself, and cannot provide for itself, is not secure, and we have to be able to feed ourselves to make sure that no other country ever controls us,” Noem declared. “In South Dakota, China does not own any of our land, nor will they ever own any of our land.”
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) recounted how Arkansas became the first state in the nation to kick a Chinese-owned company off its farmland and passed new laws blocking foreign land purchases near military installations and critical infrastructure. “A country has to be able to feed itself, fuel itself, and fight for itself to truly be free,” she stated.
Gov. Jim Pillen (R-NE) explained that Nebraska has taken aggressive action to push Chinese companies out, beginning with legislation passed in 2023 to remove all Chinese equipment from telecommunications systems statewide. “That was the first step,” Pillen said. “Second step was making sure that no land is purchased by any foreign adversaries in the state of Nebraska. Third step is simply that we have direct conversations with companies that are from China.” He added that he personally refused to meet with representatives from Syngenta and urged them to leave the state. “I have no interest in you being in Nebraska. My suggestion would be to get a different job.” Pillen confirmed that Syngenta had sold its Nebraska operations to a family-owned U.S. genetic company.
Tuberville stressed that foreign adversaries own over two million acres of farmland in Alabama alone. “They are dominating us in almost everything that they do, because we’ve sat back and the politicians have been counting their money instead of doing what’s right and helping this country stay in the front,” the senator argued. “We’ve got to be number one. We can’t be number two. We’ve got to fight back. They are coming into our country and buying our farmland.”
Congressman GT Thompson (R-PA) noted that the One Big Beautiful Bill included historic investments across the agricultural value chain, strengthening biosecurity, providing tax relief, and supporting affordable energy policies to keep family farms running and food prices low. He pointed to foreign threats, intellectual property theft, and high energy costs as among the major challenges facing America’s farmers.
Rollins affirmed that the USDA will prioritize American-made research and revoke certifications for foreign entities tied to adversarial regimes like China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia. “The red states are the ones that are banning the Chinese-owned farmland, and this is true,” she affirmed. “But I have to believe that Democrat governors and even the blue states realize what a massive threat this is to national security and how important it is. We plan to work with everyone, no matter which party, no matter which side of the aisle they’re from, to ensure that the people of this country and our agriculture farmland is protected.”
Marshall contended that Chinese land ownership is just a small piece of a much larger threat. He pointed to foreign control over as much as a fourth of America’s protein processing industry through companies like JBS and Smithfield, as well as ongoing intellectual property theft by Chinese researchers operating inside U.S. universities. “What really keeps me awake is bioterrorism,” Marshall cautioned, describing a scenario in which a Wuhan lab-engineered virus wipes out global livestock while adversaries protect their own with exclusive mRNA vaccines. “That’s why I’m a big proponent of the work being done in Manhattan, Kansas at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. The biggest active threat I see is bioterrorism.”
Rollins previously told Breitbart News the Trump administration is exploring a federal solution to stop China from buying American farmland, calling it “one of the very, very top” national security priorities and warning that much of the land is located near U.S. military outposts.
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Anti-ICE Rioter Fires Gun at Federal Agents at California Marijuana Farm Raid; Democrat Congressman Crashes Police Line
Federal immigration officers conducting raids Thursday at two California marijuana farms in Ventura County were attacked by protesters and had to fend off a Democratic Congressman who tried to crash a police line. National Guard troops and vehicles were also at the raids.
Video taken by KABC-TV shows a protester firing a handgun at ICE agents as he runs away. There were no reports of anyone being hit by gunfire. This is the third time in the past week ICE agents have been fired upon by pro-illegal immigration activists:
Glass House Farms locations in Carpinteria and Camarillo were apparently simultaneously raided by ICE. About ten workers were reportedly detained and taken into custody by agents.
Protesters were called to the scene by pro-illegal immigration groups urged them to “protect workers,” according to a report by the Santa Barbara Independent (excerpt):
Dozens of military-style vehicles, reportedly with ICE and the U.S. National Guard, conducted raids at two Central Coast cannabis farms Thursday morning, causing a chaotic scene at both the locations as videos spread on social media while the raids were occurring.
The 805 Immigrant Coalition and 805 UndocuFund confirmed that the raids were happening just after 10 a.m. on Thursday, sending out urgent community alerts about the large-scale raids at Glass House Farms locations in Carpinteria and Camarillo.
“Both locations have multiple ICE vehicles and agents on the ground,” the alert said, calling on citizens to “show up to the scene to protect workers.”
…At Camarillo’s protest, federal agents reportedly fired rubber bullets and flash bangs into the crowd in addition to deploying smoke canisters.
Video posted by Townhall shows protesters attacking armored vehicles at one of the raids. One woman is seen repeatedly trying to damage the vehicles by jamming a long flag pole flying a Mexican flag in the wheel wells, windows and other parts of the vehicles.
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USAID Quietly Sent Thousands Of Viruses To Chinese Military-Linked Biolab
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place, according to previously unreported documents.
The documents show that USAID funded the exportation of 11,000 samples from Yunnan Province, where some of the closest relatives of the COVID-19 virus circulate, to Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, with no apparent plan for ensuring the samples were not misdirected to bioweapons and remained accessible to the U.S. government.
A $210 million USAID public health program called PREDICT, steered by the University of California-Davis, collected viral samples in countries throughout the globe but lacked long-term storage when funding dried up, according to rudimentary plans in 2019.
USAID’s sample dispensation plan for China is sparse: “No need [sic] information from Yunnan. They were never an official lab partner for PREDICT. All samples they helped collected [sic] are sent to, tested, and stored in Wuhan.”
The “lab” refers to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). WIV was a close partner of USAID contractor EcoHealth Alliance and a slated partner for a PREDICT-like program supported by the State Department. The lab has poor biosafety practices and ties to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
One of the closest known relatives of the COVID virus is among the viruses sampled with USAID funding.
“Investigations involving USAID’s former funding of global health awards remain active and ongoing,” a senior State Department official said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The American people can rest assured knowing that under the Trump Administration we will not be funding these controversial programs.”
The internal documents were obtained through a FOIA lawsuit brought by U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit newsroom and public health research group.
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