S. 179, also known as the Foreign Adversary Risk Management Act or FARM Act, aims to protect the U.S. agriculture industry from foreign influence. The bill proposes changes to the Defense Production Act of 1950 by involving the Secretary of Agriculture in...
Simple Explanation
This bill wants to make sure that people from other countries can’t control important things like farms and food-making machines in America, by checking what they do very carefully. It even says a special farm helper gets to have a say in these checks!