trump voter at risk for losing his farm after trump signed EO to put a freeze on IRA funds - Should we empathize?

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43. Is he really a Trump voter? We all want him to be a regretful Trump voter.

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He is upset about his Natural Resources Conservation Service contract. He was installing water lines as part of the grant. Now I know alot of conservatives who are involved with conservation work because of grants, so I know that doesn't mean he's a not a Trump voter. I just can't find anything to indicate that he's a Trump voter or who he voted for etc...

Over the past two days Skylar Holden, a 27-year-old, first-generation cattle producer in eastern Missouri, has posted multiple videos detailing how he signed a contract with NRCS. He signed a contract with NRCS for $240,000 and now has $80,000 in material purchased and signed contracts to install water lines. Holden said he was told the contract was frozen and nobody knows when the money could be released.

In an interview with DTN, Holden expressed frustration because he was initially cautious about signing up for a government program. Once he got started, however, Holden said he was excited about the prospects and what the EQIP improvements could do on his land. He touted NRCS programs on his TikTok account @cattlemenfamilyfarms.

"I made business decisions based on this contract," Holden said.

Holden said NRCS staff told him to contact his congressional delegation in Missouri to see if they could get the funds release.

He added, "Going into this, if I had known they could have frozen the payments I never would have done it. I was promoting the NRCS programs a lot on my TikTok and I talked to a lot of people who signed up for those programs. And now looking back I feel guilty because they're all in the same boat I am in. They started projects and they aren't getting paid out on them."

https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2025/02/07/usda-freezes-conservation-funds-2

Sorry, but I'm just skeptical of videos of FAFO etc.

We do have a big "Latinos for Trump" guy in my neighborhood. He was involved in the 2020 Trump trains. He did take down his big Trump flag. He now has a Mexican flag. He has a flag collection in his back yard with USA, 13 colonies, Mexico and Crown of Castille (Old colonial Spanish flag)

(Although he's probably 1/2 Native American, a good chunk of Latinos are upset over Christopher Columbus Day being changed to Indigenous Peoples Day. And many still honor Columbus. It's complicated, but many are related to those conquistadors, like my husband, who is 1/2 indigenous)

He also took down his US Marines flag, so I'm not reading too much into it. I'm sure he's still a Trumper, but maybe he felt he could have been offending Latinos with his Trump flag? Who knows? Or maybe he just switched out flags the way he switches out his flower beds?

The fact that he put up colonial flags indicates that he's still a conservative, even though he put up a Mexican flag.