Brown told the sugar growers she has been meeting with farmers around the country, including beet growers in Michigan and cane growers in the South. Vaden noted that the Trump administration has implemented the OBBBA and also distributed disaster aid to sugar growers. Trade policy has not always favored sugar growers, but the Trump administration is determined to favor domestic production, he said. Although employees have left USDA during the Trump administration, Vaden maintained that the Biden administration planned to lay off 7,000 Forest Service employees and that the Trump administration had not followed through on that plan. Vaden praised the sugar growers for defending not only the sugar industry but for standing up for the chemicals they need for production and for the manufacturing jobs associated with it.