Reminder: Ashley Hinson Routinely Drives Forward CCP-Linked Policies While Iowa Pays the Price

While Iowa farmers face surging fertilizer and diesel costs, Congresswoman Ashley Hinson has consistently pushed policies that hurt Iowa families, driving up everything from gas prices at the pump to grocery bills – benefiting her Chinese Communist Party-linked donors.

Hinson’s Save Our Bacon Act, which was folded into today’s House-passed farm bill, is just the latest example of her putting foreign interests ahead of Iowa families. The legislation overrides state standards on livestock products – a direct handout to CCP-owned Smithfield Foods, which controls 26% of U.S. pig production. Hinson’s bill gives foreign entities greater influence over American agriculture and a federal mechanism to bypass the food safety laws states have fought to put in place. Even Hinson’s own Republican colleagues warned the bill would “substantially benefit foreign-owned farms under the control of the CCP.”

“Ashley Hinson has made a career out of talking tough on China while CCP-backed companies pad her pockets, no matter the costs to Iowans,” said Senate Majority PAC press secretary Christyna Thompson. “Her record shows she’s more concerned about whoever’s signing her checks than she is about the wellbeing of families in her own state.”

More on Hinson’s background:

• She authored a Smithfield Foods-backed bill that would let CCP-owned meat giant sell products with lower production standards.
• She pushed a $38.6 billion federal carve-out to protect Summit Carbon’s CO2 pipeline through Iowa – a project her own constituents called “wasting our tax dollars,” “stealing our land,” and “threatening our lives” – after taking nearly $70,000 from Summit and their lobbyists.
• She has taken nearly $100,000 from CCP-linked interests – including Syngenta, Smithfield Foods, Summit Carbon, and their allies.
• She went to bat for a pesticide made by Chinese-owned Syngenta that University of Iowa researchers have linked to cancer, calling health restrictions “completely unacceptable” – even as Iowa’s rising cancer rates draw national attention.