Fighting for a Farm Bill that prioritizes local growers, expands trade with Asia, and protects family farms from punitive double taxation.
Fight for a Farm Bill that prioritizes local growers, expands trade with Asia, and protects family farms from punitive double taxation.
Occurrences
Evidence
The campaign issues page says Baumgartner’s agriculture action is to fight for a Farm Bill that prioritizes local growers, expands trade with Asia, and protects family farms from punitive double taxation.
Baumgartner’s official House agriculture page says he is a strong advocate for farmers and ranchers of Eastern Washington and believes in protecting the agricultural supply chain and boosting market access.
The House Clerk records that H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Act, passed the House on May 22, 2025, by a 215-214 vote.
The House Agriculture Committee says H.R. 1 was signed into law on July 4, 2025, and included agriculture and rural provisions such as a larger farm safety net, crop insurance support, and more than $2 billion to support access to export markets.
GovInfo shows the 2026 farm bill reported in the House but still not enacted as of the report date, with the reported bill titled the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026.
Roll Call 154 records H.R. 7567, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, as passed by the House on April 30, 2026, by a 224-200 vote.
The committee's farm-bill page says the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 expands investments in rural communities, prioritizes American commodities on the global stage, improves risk-management tools for specialty crop producers, and expands producers' access to credit.
Assessments
Baumgartner’s promise was to fight for a Farm Bill with specific agriculture, trade, and family-farm tax priorities. During his House term, there was concrete same-term progress: the House passed H.R. 7567, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, and enacted H.R. 1 provisions supporting farm safety-net, crop insurance, and export-market access. That supports meaningful partial fulfillment and legislative effort. However, the core farm bill had not become law in the evidence provided, and the record does not show delivery of the full promise, especially a specific fix for punitive double taxation affecting family farms.
Baumgartner promised to fight for a Farm Bill prioritizing local growers, Asia trade, and family-farm tax protection. The main 2026 farm-bill vehicle was reported but not enacted, so the specific promised Farm Bill has not been delivered. However, during his federal term, H.R. 1 became law with agriculture, farm safety net, crop insurance, and export-market funding provisions, and Baumgartner’s House vote helped advance that package. That supports partial fulfillment of the agriculture and trade-access pieces, but not full delivery of the specific Farm Bill or the double-taxation protection.
The promise combined several elements: fighting for a Farm Bill, prioritizing local growers, expanding trade with Asia, and protecting family farms from punitive double taxation. The core Farm Bill vehicle was still not enacted, so the full promised outcome was not delivered. However, Baumgartner did support/participate in same-term legislative action through H.R. 1, which became law and included agriculture, rural, crop insurance, farm safety net, and export-market provisions. That satisfies part of the agricultural and trade-access substance, but not the specific Farm Bill outcome or the family-farm double-taxation component.