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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/grassley-applying-for-trumps-farm-bailout-funds_us_5bb15303e4b0343b3dc1591cSen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported President Donald Trumps $12 billion bailout for U.S. farmers to mitigate the damaging effects of the trade war. Now the senator is applying for those same bailout funds for his own 750-acre Iowa farm, The Washington Post reports.
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is also applying for payments.
In the spring, Grassley issued a statement saying that the Trump administration had a responsibility to help farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs set by China after Trump enacted tariffs against Chinese imports.
Bailout money isnt being provided to other industries impacted by the trade war. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has already cut some 7,800 checks worth a total of $25 million for farmers, many in the swing states of the Midwest that voted for Trump in 2016.
Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), the ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, argued against using a bailout program to mitigate a problem created by the administration, saying it would set a bad precedent by politicizing farm payments. Farmers want their markets left intact and not screwed up by some policy, he said earlier this year.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Big Ag, Inc. & its genetically modified minions for this election. This is our money. repubes are using it for their own electoral bribe.
Grassley is all-in, of course, on the KGOP republican payola scheme, using our money. Greedy Old Bastards.
Quemado
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Roland99
(53,342 posts)Eugene
(61,974 posts)Source: Huffington Post
Millionaire Sen. Chuck Grassley Applying For Trumps Farm Bailout Funds
Hes dipping into Trump administrations $12 billion program to subsidize farmers hurt by Trumps trade war.
By Mary Papenfuss
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported President Donald Trumps $12 billion bailout for U.S. farmers to mitigate the damaging effects of the trade war. Now the senator is applying for those same bailout funds for his own 750-acre Iowa farm, The Washington Post reports.
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is also applying for payments.
In the spring, Grassley issued a statement saying that the Trump administration had a responsibility to help farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs set by China after Trump enacted tariffs against Chinese imports.
Bailout money isnt being provided to other industries impacted by the trade war. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has already cut some 7,800 checks worth a total of $25 million for farmers, many in the swing states of the Midwest that voted for Trump in 2016.
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Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/grassley-applying-for-trumps-farm-bailout-funds_us_5bb15303e4b0343b3dc1591c
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Mrs. Overall posted a really good article at https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11216302
It starts out about how Devon Nunes is tricking voters into believing he's a California dairy farmer when he and his family moved their farm to Rep. Steve King's district in Iowa a decade ago. But it's mostly about how farmers in that intensely conservative area and other states are living in fear of being ruined by Republican policies, immigration labor especially, even as they continue to vote Republican.
It's long, but a quick scan of the beginning's very worthwhile. A lot recounts the reporter being followed around by Nunes family members, also the farmers' plight in detail. They started wanting him to understand but quickly shut up, afraid that his story might bring ICE down on them. An ICE raid and subsequent jail and large fines can ruin a farmer for years, or permanently.