Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s ongoing absence is a mystery, with everyone from other Republican candidates to his own Kentucky neighbors baffled as to his whereabouts. “The absence of Sen. Mitch McConnell R-KY hit home for Republicans today - as the Senate Agriculture Committee failed to report out a GOP Farm Bill (no Democrats would support the bill),” Capitol Hill correspondent Jamie Dupree posted on X on Thursday. So it's quite a lot: half the exports go to, or at least historically went to, China, Canada, and Mexico.” He added, “The exports to China have shriveled up because the Chinese retaliated very hard and hit back again directly against American farmers. Gresser continued, “The tariff program has badly screwed over American farmers,” saying "farmers are definitely in trouble."