{"id":1052092,"date":"2025-03-18T18:12:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1052092"},"modified":"2025-03-18T18:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:12:53","slug":"reminder-trump-is-ripping-away-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-from-american-farmers-struggling-under-his-failing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-trump-is-ripping-away-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-from-american-farmers-struggling-under-his-failing-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"REMINDER: Trump Is Ripping Away Hundreds of Millions of Dollars From American Farmers Struggling Under His Failing Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On National Agriculture Day, here\u2019s a reminder that Donald Trump is ripping away hundreds of millions of dollars from farmers and raising costs \u2014 after driving small family-owned farms into bankruptcy during his first term. Instead of working to help support America\u2019s farms, Trump is once again leaving them out to dry. The only people benefiting from Trump\u2019s disastrous agenda are Trump\u2019s billionaire backers \u2014 not American farmers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Trump claims to support farmers, his dangerous agenda of mass firings and funding cuts is already threatening farmers\u2019 livelihoods after ripping away hundreds of millions of dollars from American farmers\u2019 pockets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cFarmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals. <\/strong>On his first day in office, President Donald Trump ordered the USDA to freeze funds for several programs designated by President Joe Biden\u2019s signature clean-energy and health-care law, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cPurchases and shipments of U.S. food aid worth over $340 million<\/strong> \u2014 including rice, wheat and soybeans \u2014 have been paused<\/strong> during Trump\u2019s foreign-aid freeze, according to officials and an email obtained by The Post. That has left hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone<\/strong>, Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canary Media<\/a>: \u201cThe Spokane, Washington-based consultancy [Zero Emissions Northwest] has secured <\/strong>$3.7 million in grants from a nearly two-decade-old U.S. Department of Agriculture program meant to help rural businesses save energy and generate their own power. \u2026 The projects were expected to save the farmers, communities, and rural small businesses involved more than $20 million in long-term energy costs. <\/strong>But last week, USDA informed Funk that it was freezing all reimbursements from the program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s unaffordable national tax will further devastate small farmers, forcing them to shoulder costs of Trump\u2019s reckless policies. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cFarmers face steep losses in the middle of Trump’s trade war and funding cuts\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[F]armers have found themselves caught in the middle of President Donald Trump\u2019s escalation of trade wars<\/strong> and efforts to slash billions of dollars in spending, leaving a growing number now struggling to find markets for their products and facing the risk of steep losses for the year ahead<\/strong>. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut farmers across the country<\/strong> \u2014 from small organic berry growers in Maine to large-scale hog producers in Iowa \u2014 say those policy changes could cripple their businesses<\/strong> if they aren\u2019t resolved soon, wreaking long-lasting damage on the U.S. agriculture industry<\/strong>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters<\/a>: \u201cUS, Canadian farmers face soaring fertilizer prices amid Trump trade war<\/strong>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has a long history of failed economic policies that have cost farmers billions of dollars and devastated American family farms, all while bailing out corporate agriculture giants during his first term. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump farm secretary: No guarantee small farms will survive\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental Working Group<\/a>: \u201cUSDA Bailout for Impact of Trump\u2019s Tariffs Goes to Biggest, Richest Farmers<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe top one-tenth of recipients received 54 percent of all MFP payments<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center For American Progress<\/a>: \u201cFarmers have lost $8.4 billion in profits due to the Trump administration\u2019s trade policies. <\/strong>As a result, net farm income in 2018 was down 16% from the previous year. The program meant to provide relief to the most affected farmers has largely ignored small and minority-owned farms<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c2. The number of claims of Chapter 12 bankruptcy<\/strong> in the 7th and 8th Circuits, which is available only to farmers and ranchers, has increased 45% since Donald Trump took office<\/strong>. These circuits, which are composed of the breadbasket states Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, are facing unprecedented bankruptcy rates, despite the Trump administration\u2019s farm bailouts<\/strong>. …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c5. Market concentration has shot up across the agricultural sector in recent years<\/strong>, yet one of the USDA\u2019s first acts under the Trump administration was to withdraw Obama-era rules that protected family farmers<\/strong> from unfair and deceptive contracting practices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On National Agriculture Day, here\u2019s a reminder that Donald Trump is ripping away hundreds of millions of dollars from farmers and raising costs \u2014 after driving small family-owned farms into bankruptcy during his first term. Instead of working to help support America\u2019s farms, Trump is once again leaving them out to dry. 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