House Dems, Republicans team up to block CCP encroachment on US food supply

FIRST ON FOX: A bipartisan group in the House of Representatives is pushing to keep China’s influence over the U.S. food supply at a minimum.

New legislation being unveiled by Reps. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., would force the Department of Agriculture to hatch policy ideas to preemptively mitigate threats Beijing’s ruling Chinese Communist Party could pose to American agricultural supply chains, while at the same time rolling back legislative and regulatory barriers affecting domestic production.

"China has captured significant market share for agricultural inputs that are vital to our domestic food supply, ceding our top adversary leverage and control," Hinson explained to Fox News Digital. "Iowa farmers have told me firsthand that if China decides to shut off U.S. access to these inputs, food production could slow to a halt."

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She argued the bill would "reshore this critical supply chain to ensure Communist China does not have the power to restrict American food production."

It would also mandate that the federal government stay on top of tracking the health of domestic agriculture supply chains and their vulnerability to China via annual assessments.

It comes as Congress also stares down China on the technology front, as the Senate considers a recently-passed House bill to force Beijing-backed company ByteDance to sever its ties with the popular social media app TikTok – or risk the platform being banned in U.S. app stores altogether.

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Like the TikTok bill, Hinson’s legislation is also backed by the top two lawmakers on the House select