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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Monday, July 07, 2025

President Donald Trump's decision to shutter a long-running worldwide wheat aid program has left farmers in Kansas reeling, The New York Times reported on Monday. "Conceived by a Kansas farmer and created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Food for Peace has sent burlap sacks of grain stamped 'From the American People' to more than four billion people in 150 countries around the world," wrote Elizabeth Williamson. "Now it is effectively dead." These cuts, which Kansas Republicans frantically tried to discourage Trump from making, is bad news not just for the recipients of this wheat in developing nations, said the report, but the Kansas farmers who relied on it to sell large amounts of their harvest. "It was the latest blow to farmers, particularly in Kansas, where about 80 percent of those on the high plains voted for Mr. Trump and agriculture makes up almost half of the state's economy.

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You get what you vote for.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-07-07 01:56 PM | Reply

HAHA

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 02:01 PM | Reply

Paul Penner, a Kansas farmer, told The Times he is losing patience with Kansas' GOP representatives for not doing more to tell the public about the damage to his state's economy from the Trump administration: "We need people who are willing to speak up. I think privately they say things, but publicly, no. And I'm not sure what their pain threshold is."

It sucks. I agree with Mr. Penner. They should be willing to openly criticize these policies.

#3 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 02:19 PM | Reply

They should be willing to openly criticize these policies.

And bring the Eye of Sauron upon them? Not going to happen.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-07 02:28 PM | Reply

So we should be expecting lower food prices in the US as the supply of available crops increases? Right?

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 03:20 PM | Reply

Conceived by a Kansas farmer and created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Food for Peace has sent burlap sacks of grain stamped 'From the American People' to more than four billion people in 150 countries around the world

Ike was a rino.

~MAGA dumfux~

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-07 03:21 PM | Reply

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