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By  CPAC Ranchers Coalition, and Jim Mundorf Most Americans have never heard of the Beef Checkoff Program, but for cattle producers, it has a constant and unavoidable presence. The Beef Checkoff Program is a federally authorized—and in some cases, state-mandated—program that requires producers to pay between one and five dollars every time an animal is sold. Those funds are intended to strengthen the beef industry and protect the cornerstone of America: ranching. What the program is not intended to do is work against the very producers who are forced to fund it. Yet, as CPAC Ranchers Coalition partner Jim Mundorf has exposed, Beef Checkoff-supported education materials are now falsely teaching students that cattle are a major driver of climate change. At the center of this controversy is a lesson titled “Methane and Cattle: A Climate Connection,”  distributed through Beef Checkoff education outreach. In it, students are taught that methane from cattle digestion is highly damaging to the climate and are instructed to explain this “problem” to farmers and ranchers themselves. The e xercise condescendingly f rames ranchers as uninformed and in need of correction. Missing entirely is any serious discussion of natural methane cycles, wild ruminants, or the fundamental biological reality that methane has always been a part of grazing ecosystems. This is not education—it is ideological conditioning, funded by producers and aimed against them. This false narrative is being reinforced by powerful industry institutions that should know better. The American Angus Association, long positioned as a steward of producer interests, is now partnering with entities such as the Bezos Earth Fund and the Global Methane Hub to develop a genomic EPD platform that promotes so-called “climate-friendly” beef from purportedly low-methane cattle lines. This effort is built on junk science. Methane production is primarily driven by bacterial fermentation of feedstuffs and has low heritability, rendering genetic selection claims highly dubious. Rather than empowering ranchers, these efforts accelerate vertical integration, expand corporate influence over production decisions, and further concentrate control within the same institutions that contributed to today’s cattle shortages. The ultimate objective is total corporate control over the nation’s food supply, a development that is fundamentally bad for America, undermines private property rights, and erodes the independence of family producers. Worse still, real-world attempts to reduce methane through feed additives and experimental vaccines have already proven disastrous, with widespread reports of sickness, mortality, and miscarriages in herds. When producer-funded programs and industry institutions promote unproven science, demean ranchers, and align themselves with global climate agendas, they abandon their mission entirely. CPAC stands with our Ranchers Coalition partners in demanding transparency, accountability, and reform. At a minimum, every producer deserves to know how their dollars are being used and to decide whether this is truly the future they want for their industry. Read more here .

Over the past year, the Trump Administration established a decisive inflection point in federal regulatory policy, moving from a period of rapid expansion of regulations to a sustained effort to minimize administrative state overreach. The CPAC Center for Regulatory Freedom was instrumental in working with the Trump Administration over the past year, offering key research, comments, and collaborative policy strategies to help fulfill President Trump’s mandate to make America more economically competitive and prosperous.  By the end of 2024, under the Biden Administration, annual regulatory costs had ballooned to approximately $4 trillion, growing at a rate of 15% per year, which threatened to reach nearly $7 trillion by 2029. The Trump Administration successfully reversed this disaster in 2025, ending the year with regulatory costs at $3.8 trillion, roughly $800 billion below the projected path. This shift sought to relieve cost-of-living pressures for the everyday American embedded in energy, housing, and transportation, directly improving household purchasing power without new federal spending. CRF filed more than sixty comments and participated in over one hundred regulatory proceedings across twenty-five federal agencies in 2025. CRF utilized a comprehensive regulatory reform agenda to prioritize high-impact proceedings and intervene early in the policy-making process. This engagement focused on the need for enforcing cost-benefit discipline and challenging the expansion of sub-regulatory policymaking. A central component of this strategy involved confronting the structural incentives that encourage bureaucratic overreach through the establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE was designed to identify inefficiencies, redundancies, and mission drift while resetting the internal baseline for federal agencies.  In addition to these early institutional changes, the Trump Administration scrapped Biden-era revisions to Circular A-4 to restore objective cost-benefit analysis as the foundation of regulatory decision-making. This action eliminated the use of "phantom metrics" and subjective valuations that had previously allowed agencies to justify nearly any policy outcome, ensuring that future regulations are tethered to measurable economic reality. An assortment of sector-based victories illustrates the practical impact of these combined efforts. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began moving away from expansive greenhouse gas regulatory frameworks and initiated a reconsideration of the ambition and structure of corporate average fuel economy standards. At the Department of Transportation, reforms addressed long-standing race- and sex-based presumptions in DBE and ACDBE programs to reduce the administrative distortions that inflate national infrastructure costs. Additionally, the Department of Labor successfully rolled back pandemic-era recordkeeping requirements, reinforcing the principle that emergency authorities should not become permanent fixtures of the regulatory state. Further accomplishments in 2025 included significant interventions in financial and antitrust enforcement. CRF submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding the Omnicom–IPG merger, urging the commission to reject expansive "theories of harm" and respect First Amendment considerations. The FTC’s subsequent decision to adhere to traditional, evidence-based antitrust principles preserved analytical standards and prevented the use of merger reviews as a vehicle for content regulation. CRF also challenged overreaching Information Collection Requests (ICRs) under the Paperwork Reduction Act, resulting in several agencies withdrawing or narrowing data-collection obligations that functioned as de facto regulation for small businesses. These 2025 initiatives by the Trump Administration resulted in a record 5.31% reduction in regulatory costs and $211 billion in net savings reported by the Office of Management and Budget. Beyond immediate cost relief, these reforms regained trillions of dollars in opportunity costs by removing barriers to investment, innovation, and productivity growth. The Trump Administration, with the help of CRF, has established a new benchmark for regulatory discipline that prioritizes national economic strength and competitiveness. This sustained commitment to regulatory freedom ensures that America remains competitive and prosperous by preventing the administrative state from expanding faster than the economy it governs.

It has been one year since President Donald Trump’s historic inauguration, where he pledged to put America first, ensuring that laws are enforced and the vulnerable are protected. The Trump Administration has prioritized the protection of persecuted Christians and survivors of human trafficking with policies that close human trafficking networks and pressure countries that persecute Christians. The CPAC Ending Christian Persecution Coalition and the CPAC Combating Human Trafficking Coalition played a substantive role in informing these efforts, ensuring that advocacy initiatives were translated into concrete policies that protect the vulnerable. Through the work of the CPAC Ending Christian Persecution Coalition, the Trump Administration reinforced the United States’ longstanding commitment to religious liberty. In October, the CPAC and coalition partners met with White House officials for a roundtable on Christian persecution. Following the meeting, President Trump redesignated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), reinstating a mechanism that requires diplomatic consequences for sustained and severe violations of religious freedom.  Coordination among faith leaders, legal experts, and policymakers continued on October 30 at the CPAC Ending Christian Persecution Summit at the Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where administration officials Faith Director of the White House Faith Office Jenny Korn, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism Dr. Sebastian Gorka, and Principal Advisor Global Religious Freedom at U.S. State Department Mark Walker discussed the relationship between religious persecution, regional instability, and how the U.S. can better protect Christians around the world. The Trump Administration has also prioritized combating human trafficking networks at the border and standing up for victims, ensuring the federal government is fighting for them and holding perpetrators accountable with the support of CPAC's Combating Human Trafficking Coalition. On November 13, 2025, with the advocacy of First Lady Melania Trump, President Trump signed the Executive Order "Fostering the Future for American Children and Families,” which focused on prevention by addressing systemic vulnerabilities in the foster care system. By incorporating foster care reform into the trafficking prevention strategy, the Trump Administration addressed a documented risk factor frequently exploited by traffickers. Leah Stauffer of Half a Million Kids, a CPAC coalition partner, contributed her expertise to ensure the policy addressed the intersection of foster care and trafficking effectively. With data indicating that approximately 60 percent of rescued trafficking victims have a history in foster care, the initiative reflected a preventative framework emphasizing early intervention and safer child welfare. In December, Congress passed the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, a legislative priority advanced after eight years of sustained advocacy. The CPAC Center for Combating Human Trafficking joined a roundtable at the White House, bringing together lawmakers and Administration officials from the Department of Justice, U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. Senate to develop key strategies to not only pass but fully implement the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act. The bipartisan measure established a federal process allowing survivors to seek expungement of non-violent criminal records incurred as a result of coercion. By removing statutory barriers to employment and housing, the legislation addressed long-standing impediments to survivor reintegration and reinforced a justice framework focused on restoration rather than continued penalization. Last year was a historic year for America, with a President who is fighting for the vulnerable. Through targeted diplomatic pressure, prevention-focused policies, and bipartisan legislative reform, the Trump Administration, working in coordination with Congress and CPAC coalitions, advanced historic protections for persecuted Christians and survivors of human trafficking. This collaboration ensured that advocacy efforts translated into concrete policy results, addressing both the root causes and long-term consequences of persecution and trafficking. As these initiatives continue to be implemented, they reinforce the United States’ role as a defender of religious liberty and human dignity and establish a framework for sustained protection of the vulnerable and responsible governance in the years ahead.