Common sense dictates that any American with half a brain should support the precise tracking of foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land — particularly farmland purchased by entities or individuals in Communist China, whose stated objective is world domination.
Perhaps the operative words above are “half a brain.”
The Biden administration is not only failing to properly track such ownership; it doesn’t appear to even have a plan to begin tracking that data — according to an investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Moreover, according to a GAO report, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has not consistently shared timely data on foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land as required under the 1978 Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA).
The GAO report, which was published late Thursday, states:
Sharing current data could help…
