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Jon Tester: “I think it’d be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.”

On the recordJune 19, 2026
I think it’d be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Discussing the implications of foreign ownership of farmland.

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