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Missouri Farmer Who Used Online Quiz to Vote for President Now Faces Losing Family Farm After Funding Freeze.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/...9d96&ei=11

First-generation Missouri farmer Skylar Holden said he wishes he’d been more careful with his vote now that he faces financial ruin due to a freeze instituted by President Donald Trump on funding for key conservation programs.

Holden had signed a $240,000 contract with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to improve water lines, fencing, and wells on his farm.

Project 2025, the conservative policy blueprint that Trump disavowed during the campaign, aims to reshape federal agencies by limiting regulatory oversight and restructuring funding mechanisms.

According to the policy guide book “Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise,” the USDA should scale back regulatory interventions and focus on removing barriers to agricultural production. The book attacks policies that prioritize climate change and equity, advocating instead for a USDA that prioritizes efficiency, free-market principles and reducing environmental regulations that could hinder farm productivity, Newsweek reports.

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'Played for suckers': Kansas agriculture expert chides fellow farmers who voted for Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pla...cf13&ei=11

He takes particular aim at Trump's decision to launch trade wars with longtime allies who buy large amounts of American agricultural goods.

"We are now living and working in an environment where the only constant is chaos," he explains. "Chaos produces uncertainty, and that leads to loss of trust. The buyers of U.S. farm products are not going to deal with nations that cannot be trusted. There are plenty of options in today’s world for those buyers to bypass the United States. Why on God’s green earth would they put up with the insanity that we have in Washington now?"

He concludes his column by urging farmers to put aside their political tribalism and realize that the trajectory Trump has put the nation on is unsustainable.

"My fellow farmers — you’ve been played," he writes. "This nation cannot exist as an island. But that is the path that this administration is on, and the onus is on responsible folks from all political persuasions to find common ground to stop this madness."



His last comment about isolationism rings true, it did not work in the early 40's and it will not work now.