President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of an Iowa kosher meatpacking executive who was sentence to 27 years in prison for money laundering.

The commutation is Trump's first in office and comes following the encouragement of multiple members of congress and other high-ranking officials who argued the sentence was too harsh.

Sholom Rubashkin ran the Iowa headquarters of a family business that was the country's largest kosher meat-processing company.