H.R. 1713, titled the “Agricultural Risk Review Act of 2025,” proposes to amend the Defense Production Act of 1950. It seeks to add the Secretary of Agriculture to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to assess transactions involving agricultural...
Simple Explanation
H.R. 1713 wants to make sure that when other countries try to buy farms or land in the U.S., the person in charge of farms gets to help decide if that's okay, especially if the countries they're from, like China or Russia, don't always play nice.