Senate Democrats assail Trump's $16B bailout for farmers
Source: Associated Press
Steve Karnowski, Associated Press Updated 4:59 pm CST, Tuesday, November 12, 2019
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) President Donald Trump's $16 billion bailout package for farmers hurt by the trade war with China unfairly benefits the South at the expense of the North and wealthy producers over smaller farms, Democratic senators concluded in a report released Tuesday.
The report, one of the sharpest congressional critiques yet of the Market Facilitation Program, said five southern states receive the highest average payments per acre under the program Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas. The analysis by Democratic committee staffers concluded that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most.
It also asserted that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has done nothing to target the assistance to vulnerable small, medium and beginning farmers. Instead, it said the agency doubled the payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships.
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Sen. Debbie Stabenow, of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, said the program also lacks any plan for rebuilding or replacing the markets that farmers have lost since they became caught up in the trade war last year. She leveled the charges in a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue that accompanied the 12-page report.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Top-Democrat-assails-Trump-s-16B-trade-bailout-14828947.php
LakeArenal
(28,804 posts)And still openly hate Hillary Clinton.
Still Hillary for Prison signs and t-shirts around. Love concealed carry too.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)They need to call this what it is: a bribe.
0rganism
(23,930 posts)some have called his bribery "perfect", or at least "the best bribes i've ever seen!"
many people are saying big strong men run to him with tears streaming down their faces, crying "Sir, please honor us with another of your magnificent bribes!"
Miguelito Loveless
(4,457 posts)and while they are mad at Trump, they claim to have no choice but to vote for him because:
Gays
Blacks
Mexicans
Feminazis
Radical environmentalists
Gun grabbers
Jews
Democratic child slavers
Etc.
Dems should just refuse to fund the bailout, farmers will never vote for them.
dem4decades
(11,269 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,457 posts)How can they be lazy, yet take all our jobs. They also are mad because they cant find people to pick their crops.
Their harm is self-inflicted, but cant, wont see it.
PennyK
(2,301 posts)Saying Dems hate farmers and that they don't want to help them.
cstanleytech
(26,236 posts)he cannot divert excess money to states he is trying to win for the next election.
If Moscow Mitch refuses to bring it to a vote he screws the Republicans and Trump and if Trump vetoes it then he screws the Republicans and himself.
keithbvadu2
(36,667 posts)Something you won't hear from a Trump-country farmer:
Rejecting Donald's socialism.
paleotn
(17,884 posts)Oh...wait.
Yes, your northern and western tax dollars are going into the pockets of some white, dough boy in Mississippi named Cletus. You see, Cletus needs a new pickup and we're all gonna have to chip in thanks to IQ45.
dhill926
(16,314 posts)and hurting swing states? Not exactly a genius move from the asshole...