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As Donald Trump spins his abysmal economic record that failed farmers across the country,<\/em> DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump spent four years in office putting farmers last, and now he and his extreme allies are doubling down with an extreme Project 2025 agenda that would devastate rural communities across America. Trump can\u2019t defend his failed record \u2013 his reckless policies bankrupted small farmers while siding with Big Ag and wealthy corporations. Now, Trump\u2019s Project 2025 plan for rural America is to return to the same failed blueprint, but Americans aren\u2019t going back. Voters will reject the Trump-Vance ticket at the ballot box because hardworking Americans deserve a president who fights for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACT: While Donald Trump started a reckless trade war that hurt and bankrupted farmers, farm bankruptcies have dropped under the Biden-Harris administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Farm Bureau<\/a>: \u201cWhat a difference a year can make. After a near-record number of Chapter 12 farm bankruptcy filings in 2020, according to data from the U.S. Courts, Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings were down an incredible 50% in 2021.<\/strong> The number of Chapter 12 filings in 2021 is the lowest in the last decade and this is the first time in at least 10 years that there were fewer than 300 filings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cFarm Bankruptcies Soared 20% Amid Trump Trade War. It’s The Highest Rate In 8 Years.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cU.S. Farm Bankruptcies Surge 24% on Strain From Trump Trade War\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump promised to win the trade war with China. He failed\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Des Moines Register<\/a>: \u201cSince taking office, the Trump administration has granted 85 refineries a pass from buying 4 billion gallons of renewable fuel, killing demand for 1.4 billion bushels of corn used to make it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Financial Times<\/a>: \u201cFarmers were already frustrated by the decline in soyabean, sorghum, ethanol and corn-based livestock feed exports as a result of the US trade war with China. In north-west Iowa\u2019s fourth congressional district, goods exports to China fell by $558m in 2018 because of higher tariffs, the most of any district in the country, according to the US-China Business Council.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PIIE<\/a>: \u201cChina bought none of the extra $200 billion of US exports in Trump’s trade deal\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump and his extreme allies now want to double down on his failures with an extreme Project 2025 agenda that would devastate rural America.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for American Progress<\/a>: \u201cProject 2025\u2019s Plan To Gut Checks and Balances Harms Rural America\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MSNBC<\/a>: \u201c\u2018This thing is nuts\u2019: inside Project 2025\u2019s agriculture plan that \u2018guts rural communities, rural towns\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cSteep increases in logging. An end to federal environmental enforcement for farms. Work requirements for food aid. Fewer school meals for children. And the demolition of the network of farm subsidies that have backstopped Big Ag since the New Deal. These are some of the sweeping changes that would be made to American agriculture under Project 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FLASHBACK: Trump proposed massive cuts to the USDA <\/strong>every<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>single<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>year<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>he was in office<\/strong><\/a> and sided with Big Ag over small farmers, and repeatedly prioritized the largest and wealthiest farmers over family farmers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s new budget: Ag on the chopping block\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe blueprint also would cut $57.7 billion in mandatory agricultural spending by 2030, like lowering crop insurance subsidies, tightening eligibility for farm payments and gashing conservation programs \u2014 similar to Trump\u2019s previous budget requests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wall Street Journal<\/a>: \u201cFarmers Take a Hit in President [Trump]\u2019s Draft Budget\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cTrump Chooses Big Meat Over Little Farmers\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration chose meatpacking giants over farmers in USDA proposal, critics say\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFarmers who hoped President Donald Trump would side with them over meatpacking conglomerates were dealt a blow after the Agriculture Department proposed changing rules governing fair competition in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cTrump Pledged To Help Small Farms. Aid Is Going To Big Ones.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNBC<\/a>: \u201cAs small U.S. farms face crisis, Trump\u2019s trade aid flowed to corporations\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump said the bailout program he rolled out in 2018 would help family farms weather his trade war with China, mostly through direct payments from the government. But roughly two-thirds of those payments went to the top 10% of recipients<\/strong> at the beginning of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cIndependent Watchdog Report Finds Inequity in Farm Aid Payments\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Donald Trump spins his abysmal economic record that failed farmers across the country, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cDonald Trump spent four years in office putting farmers last, and now he and his extreme allies are doubling down with an extreme Project 2025 agenda that would devastate rural communities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDonald Trump Devastated Farmers and Threatens to Double Down With a Project 2025 Agenda That Would Hurt Rural America - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/donald-trump-devastated-farmers-and-threatens-to-double-down-with-a-project-2025-agenda-that-would-hurt-rural-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-23T20:12:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/donald-trump-devastated-farmers-and-threatens-to-double-down-with-a-project-2025-agenda-that-would-hurt-rural-america\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/donald-trump-devastated-farmers-and-threatens-to-double-down-with-a-project-2025-agenda-that-would-hurt-rural-america\/\",\"name\":\"Donald Trump Devastated Farmers and Threatens to Double Down With a Project 2025 Agenda That Would Hurt Rural America - 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