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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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