Trump Nominee Admits China is Undercutting US Farmers Amidst Trump Trade War and Argentina Bailout

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Finance Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, questioned Julie Callahan, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Chief Agricultural Negotiator at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), on how the Trump Administration’s disastrous trade policies—including bailing out Argentina’s financial markets and hedge funds after the country cut a deal with China—are hurting farmers while raising costs for families. In her responses to Ranking Member Warren, Callahan admitted that, for months, China has purchased soybeans “from every country except the United States” that exports them.