Donald Trump‘s plans to import Argentine beef have rattled a group of the president’s reliable supporters: U.S. cattle producers.

Ranchers say the proposal threatens their livelihoods and undermines domestic markets. Trump says the plan would lower grocery prices for the average American and has argued that the ranchers are thriving thanks to his trade policies.

“The only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put tariffs on cattle coming into the United States,” he wrote on Truth Social. “If it weren’t for me, they would be doing just as they’ve done for the past 20 years — terrible.”

Trump called on ranchers to “get their prices down,” saying that “the consumer is a very big factor in my thinking.”

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