Oversight Dems demand Taylor Farms provide transcripts of White House conversations
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are demanding that beleaguered food company Taylor Farms come clean about its conversations with Donald Trump as the company sits at the center of the explosive diarrhea outbreak sweeping America.
On July 27, Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote a letter to Taylor Farms CEO Bruce Taylor demanding to know if and how the company flexed its influence over the FDA during the cyclosporiasis outbreak.
“Evidence points to Taylor Farms products as a source of the outbreak, but reports indicate that your company may have attempted to influence the ongoing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation into the matter, obfuscate Taylor Farms’ role in a public health crisis, and mislead consumers trying to keep their families safe,” Garcia wrote.
Garcia expressed concern over a connection linking Taylor Farms’ $1 million donation to a Trump Super PAC in 2025 to an extraordinary update, posted by Taylor Farms, that claimed the FDA’s test linking the company’s lettuce to the outbreak was a “false positive.” He went on to insinuate that Taylor Farms met with Trump officials in order to coordinate how to distance the company from the outbreak.
“Reporting indicates that… federal officials had already reached out to Taylor Farms, and Taylor Farms executives met privately with officials from both the White House and FDA on the evening of July 16 ‘to distance the company from the outbreak and cast doubt on the officials’ conclusion,’” he continued.
On X, the FDA conceded the false positive test result occurred, but insisted that the evidence overwhelmingly suggested that Taylor Farms lettuce should be avoided as the outbreak tears through American colons.
“Regardless of the fact that the false positive does not exonerate Taylor Farms from a role in the outbreak and that ‘overwhelming epidemiological data’ points to Taylor Farms’ involvement, Taylor Farms posted on social media that the FDA ‘apologized’ to the company –– a claim which FDA denied,” Garcia wrote.
Garcia then demanded communications between the White House, the CDC, the FDA and Taylor Farms related “to sanitary conditions, quality control or contamination … including but not limited to inspection, audit, risk assessment reports, or analysis.”
The CDC has publicly confirmed over 2,000 cyclosporiasis cases in nine states, but 41 state health departments have said the outbreak has reached their borders as well.