In the next 6 weeks or so, you'll see and hear the Lefty Wail-and-Snort campaign about $148 MILLION cut from the USDA budget.
The End Of the World ..........DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM.........children starving, farmers' wives cooking alfalfa soup to live on........
You know the routine.
...“Putting American Farmers First means cutting the millions of dollars that are being wasted on woke DEI propaganda,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said. Therefore, “Under President Trump’s leadership, I am putting an end to the waste, fraud, and abuse that has diverted resources from American farmers and restoring sanity and fiscal stewardship to the USDA.”
Among nearly $150 million in canceled grants were lavish NGO programs intended to “reduce inequality, expand environmental justice through urban forestry” —urban forestry?— “and educate socially disadvantaged farmers on conservation practices.” In other words, untestable and unmeasurable gibberish.
Instead, grant applications will now be judged solely on project merit and alignment with funding priorities, including rural economic revitalization, infrastructure, and energy independence — goals Rollins described as “tangible improvements in rural America.”...
Actual ag programs. Not "trees for cities."
What a concept!!!
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