Trump’s beef with foreign meat packers? They ‘drive up prices’, he claims

Written by on November 8, 2025

US President Donald Trump has accused foreign-owned meat packers of driving up the price of beef in the United States and asked the Department of Justice to open an investigation.
Trump announced the move on social media on Friday, days after his Republican Party suffered losses in key elections in which the winning Democratic candidates focused relentlessly on the public’s concerns about the cost of living.
But experts said it was unlikely that an investigation would result in lower prices at…

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