Trump's USAID Gambit Backfires as American Farms Now Threatened

Friday, February 07, 2025

President Donald Trump may have thought that defunding the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) would only hurt foreigners -- but it turns out he could actually be mistaken.

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Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms and businesses. U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.

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-- Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM

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How many farmers are going to snuff it thanks to the-------------?

www.newsweek.com

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-06 01:14 PM | Reply

SUCKERS AND LOSERS

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-06 03:46 PM | Reply

Amid Trump Tariffs, Farm Bankruptcies And Suicides Rise

www.forbes.com

DOE 174's massive body count keeps growing.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-07 08:21 PM | Reply

Great link - Updated Aug 30, 2019, 12:22pm EDT

#4 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-02-07 08:25 PM | Reply

The other link is from March of 2019, last updated in March 2019.

#5 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-02-07 08:27 PM | Reply

Raw story used 2019 speculation as 2025 facts. Weird.

#6 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-02-07 08:29 PM | Reply

Even a retarded twunt like the 350 lb Bonaduce lookalike should know the------------------- is going to be responsible for an increase in the number of farm bankruptcies.

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-07 08:32 PM | Reply

Why do people think this is a backfire? Multiple small farm bankruptcies will result in the billionaire owned mega farms buying them for a song. Seems to me a policy change that helps billionaires would be the goal of this administration and not an unforeseen complication.

And in his first term numerous bankrupt farmers committed suicide. So that would mean savings on social security and unemployment benefits.

So this may not be a backfire at all.

#8 | Posted by prius04 at 2025-02-07 09:05 PM | Reply

"Why do people think this is a backfire?"

It's called clickbait. It's like all those articles that say Putin was humiliated or received a "major setback" by something that happened, and then when you read the actual article, the something turns out to be totally inconsequential in stopping him from what he's doing. I've long suspected articles like this aim to help people like Trump and Putin while profiting off of the gullible people who click on the headlines because it makes them feel good.

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-02-07 09:18 PM | Reply

U.S. farmers and agribusinesses, including Minnesota ventures from ag giants to processors of yellow split peas, could lose money after President Donald Trump's administration abruptly closed USAID.
Minnetonka-based Cargill, Inver Grove Heights-based CHS Inc. and Minneapolis trader Sinamco sold a total of $70 million in sorghum, wheat and peas to the agency's Food for Peace program, according to records shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune on Thursday.
In total, the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, last year purchased $2 billion in U.S.-grown crops from corn and soybeans to wheat, sorghum, vegetable oil and peas. Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin farmers were among those selling their crops to the program.

www.startribune.com

The noxious orange pedo is on a roll.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-08 11:05 AM | Reply