Heard on the Hill
What we're hearing from people we trust on and around the Hill
DEEP-SEEDED: Congressional Republicans have seen pushback from agriculture on some of HHS’s initiatives, as evidenced by the Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.) op-ed below. The Administration is going to face a balancing act navigating the sometimes divergent interests of the MAHA movement and farmers.
RAVE REVIEWS: A source close to the Trump administration also praised Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s op-ed as making “a convincing case for the importance of seed oil farmers to both lower grocery prices and to work with the administration to Make America Healthy Again.” The source also noted that “[n]o one loves our farmers more than President Trump.”
XI YOU LATER: While on the main stage of the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, Meta’s Joel Kaplan forcefully defended the company’s decision to not do business in China, which he said allowed it to better focus on pro-free expression policies.
NO AGUA PARA TI: The State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs announced a historic denial of Mexico’s non-treaty request for a special delivery channel for Colorado River water to be delivered to Tijuana because of “Mexico's continued shortfalls in its water deliveries under the 1944 water-sharing treaty [that] are decimating American agriculture--particularly farmers in the Rio Grande valley.”