Washington, DC — Not content to raise the cost of their tractors, fertilizer, and health care, Republicans in Congress have found yet another way to squeeze farmers – voting to back a war that sends their costs soaring even higher.
Congressional Republicans repeatedly voted to support President Trump’s harmful tariffs, which are raising costs and making profit margins even thinner for farmers. Crop farmers lost nearly $35 billion in 2025 alone with Republicans’ reckless tariffs. In the same year, 315 farms declared bankruptcy, a 46% increase from 2024. To make matters worse, Republicans in Congress also voted for the largest cuts to SNAP in history, taking away billions of dollars in farm revenue.
Now, instead of providing farmers relief from tariffs or reversing their SNAP cuts, congressional Republicans are busy backing a war that is putting even more strain on farmers. Republicans’ war is already hurting farmers by raising costs on diesel and fertilizer right as spring planting season is arriving. At one U.S. import hub, prices for fertilizer jumped from $516 per metric ton to nearly $700, with costs projected to continue rising. That’s even more money out of farmers’ pockets at a time when they are already struggling to keep up with the rising costs and chaos driven by Republicans’ harmful agenda.
“From tariffs to SNAP cuts to this new cost-raising war, congressional Republicans have been quite busy finding new policies that hurt farmers,” said Unrig Our Economy Campaign Director Leor Tal. “If they spent half as much time listening to their constituents as they did innovating new ways to raise costs, Republicans would know just how harmful their agenda has been for farmers across the country.”
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