working to expand free, fair trade
Expand free, fair trade.
Occurrences
In Congress, I’ll have their backs, working to expand free, fair trade, support family farming and ranching, oppose anti-competitive behavior in meatpacking, and fight the farm-killing Green New Deal.
Evidence
During the lookback window, USTR listed actions on China market access, USMCA review talks with Mexico, and a Mexico labor-rights review request.
The White House announced updated tariffs on steel, aluminum, copper, and some industrial equipment during the lookback window.
Flood said H.R. 7567 passed the House and that the 2026 Farm Bill protects and expands programs including market access.
House Roll Call 154 recorded passage of H.R. 7567, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act, on April 30, 2026; Flood was recorded as voting Yea.
Congress.gov text for H.R. 7567 includes agricultural trade provisions such as promotion of agricultural exports to emerging markets.
Flood’s office summarized his tariff statement after the Supreme Court decision and said Congress must continue progress on trading relationships.
The Supreme Court held that IEEPA did not authorize the President to impose the challenged tariffs.
Assessments
Flood materially supported trade-expansion measures, including voting for a House-passed farm bill with agricultural export and market-access provisions, and he publicly engaged on tariff and trade-relationship issues during the same federal term. But the cited bill had only passed the House, broader free-trade expansion was not enacted, and contemporaneous tariff actions undercut a finding of full delivery. The best judgment is partial credit for concrete same-term advancement, not full fulfillment.