Ledger · 2024 campaign · № 166

Stop China from buying American farmland and infrastructure

Still waiting
“[paraphrase] We will stop China from buying up American farmland and American infrastructure.”
Promised
, Agenda 47 policy video on ending reliance on China
Re-promised
6 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Trade & tariffs
Era
2024 campaign

What happened

No federal ban was enacted. USDA announced a farmland action plan in July 2025 but it depended on state laws and future rulemaking, and PolitiFact still rated the promise Stalled in its January 2026 one-year review.

Sources

  1. MAGA-Meter: Stop China from buying land in the U.S. PolitiFact, Jan 20, 2026
  2. MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term PolitiFact, Jan 20, 2026