119th Congress Foreign Trade and International Finance
H.R. 6061: American Farmers First Act
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Summary
This bill prohibits the use of the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) to provide financial support to Argentina and provides one-time economic assistance payments to certain crop producers. (The ESF is an emergency reserve fund of the Department of the Treasury, originally used for the purpose of maintaining the fixed dollar exchange rate. In October 2025, Treasury announced U.S. financial support for Argentina, including a $20 billion currency swap line financed through the ESF.)
Specifically, the bill prohibits the use of the ESF to provide direct or indirect financial support to Argentina, including through the establishment of currency swap lines, the purchase of pesos or sovereign debt of Argentina, or the extension of any credit instrument. This prohibition terminates on December 10, 2027.
Any financial contract or instrument that was entered into before the bill's enactment and violates the prohibition must be sold or terminated within seven days of the bill's enactment.
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Treasury must allocate to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) the proceeds from the sale or termination of financial contracts or instruments pursuant to the bill. USDA must then use the allocated proceeds to make one-time economic assistance payments to producers of each crop adversely impacted by loss of export markets during the 2025 marketing year for such crop, as determined by USDA.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
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Amendments
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Cosponsors
- Chrissy Houlahan D-PAOriginal
- Glenn Ivey D-MDOriginal
- Haley Stevens D-MIOriginal
- Andrea Salinas D-OROriginal
- John Mannion D-NY
- Josh Riley D-NY
- Kweisi Mfume D-MD
- Mark Pocan D-WI
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History
- Introduced in the House by April McClain Delaney.
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- Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit Discharged
- Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
- Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4782)
- Introduced in House
- Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.