🌿 Environment 2d ago · Frida Garza

Trump cut funding for farmers — then unlocked billions for them before Election Day

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Trump cut funding for farmers — then unlocked billions for them before Election Day
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The last two years have been a rough going for farmers and ranchers in the U.S. Rollbacks to several Department of Agriculture programs have cut available funding and left producers in the dark. Last year, farm groups sued the federal agency after it deleted multiple webpages that mentioned climate change, including some with critical information for planning around extreme weather. (Early this year, the ag department agreed to restore the webpages in a settlement.) Just this month, the USDA cut

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