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Op-Ed
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December 16, 2025
State Agency Overreach Harms Michigan’s Farms and Businesses
Michigan’s farmers and rural landowners are the backbone of the state’s economy and identity. They provide food, jobs, and a way of life that has helped define America’s heartland. At America First Policy Institute, we champion policies that put these producers first. But Michigan’s farmers argue that state agencies’ actions reveal a troubling pattern of flexing regulatory muscle rather than protecting the environment or supporting Michigan’s rural communities.
News Release
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December 5, 2025
America First Policy Institute Releases New Report on Grocery Sales Tax
Over the last four years, grocery prices surged dramatically, adding significant strain on American families already burdened by decades-high inflation and the rising cost-of-living. While the Trump Administration has successfully lowered energy prices and is actively pursuing regulatory reforms to lower food prices, experts caution that global disruptions and unforeseen events could drive prices even higher. AFPI’s latest paper explores ways that government officials in almost a dozen U.S. states could provide immediate relief to their citizens.
Op-Ed
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November 25, 2025
California At a Crossroads: Farmers and the ‘Land Equity’ Task Force
California stands at a crossroads. The state must choose: protect the farmers who feed America or surrender its fields to ideology and bureaucratic control. California’s allegiance to bureaucrats recently became clear with the release of the California Agricultural Land Equity Task Force’s draft report. The report, released this summer, calls for redistributing farmland based on race. Framed as “equity,” the plan would use state power to favor some Californians over others in determining who can buy, lease, or work farmland. What it really represents is an unprecedented intrusion into private property rights, race-based discrimination, and a direct threat to the foundation of the state’s agricultural economy.
Issue Brief
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November 25, 2025
The Real Costs Of California’s Agricultural Land Heist
The 2022 California Budget Act (AB-179) directed $1 million to the California Strategic Growth Council to establish the California Agricultural Land Equity Task Force (Task Force) to provide policy recommendations to the California Legislature and Governor by January 1, 2026, on “how to equitably increase access to agricultural land for food production and traditional tribal agricultural uses.”
Research Report
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November 25, 2025
Repealing Grocery Taxes to Ease Cost Pressures on Working Families
As the nation emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden Administration’s massive spending surge in 2021 helped drive decades-high inflation, causing food prices to soar and burdening American families. In fact, this burden was especially noteworthy during the 2024 presidential election, after which President Donald Trump noted that the issue helped secure his victory. As he bluntly stated, “I won on the border, and I won on groceries” .
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