Senate Minority Leader Schumer wants Brooke Rollins to stop Nebraska Tyson beef plant closure

Senate Minority Leader Schumer wants Brooke Rollins to stop Nebraska Tyson beef plant closure

A Lexington water tower on Dec. 9, 2025. (Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)OMAHA  — U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, asking her federal department to “block” the closure of the Tyson beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska.  Schumer, in the letter, pointed to the Packers and Stockyards Act, saying the upcoming closure in Lexington is a “textbook violation” of the century-old federal law…