Trump's USDA cancels $300 million program that helped farmers buy or keep their land: report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 24 March 2026 21:27 EDT


The Department of Agriculture has reportedly canceled much of a program that awarded roughly $300 million to projects around the country aimed at supporting farmers from underserved communities.

The cuts hit the Biden-era Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program, which awarded the funding across roughly 50 projects since kicking off in 2023, unnamed sources familiar with the move told Politico.

The program “involved discriminatory preferences based on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” as well as “wasteful spending,” according to a cancellation letter sent to one participant, obtained by Politico.

“Over the last year, USDA has worked to clean up the mess left for us by the last Administration,” a USDA spokesperson told The Independent. “To no surprise, a peek behind the curtain of this Biden-era program revealed the egregious misuse of taxpayer dollars to the tune of nearly $300 million dollars.”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-cancels-usda-grant-dei-farmers-b2945063.html

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So the GOP manufactures a scenario and wantonly cuts a program funded by Congress and then as is their usual knee-jerk response, they blame the Democrats (while spending almost that much on lavish anti-imigrant ads).

REFERENCE/RELATED - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143637899

[Chasstev365]

1. But Jesus told them to vote for Trump

[LisaL]

2. I guess they didn't want people to get help from the government.

What they didn't realize that those people are going to be themselves.

[Attilatheblond]

13. I know a bunch of 'em who constantly scream for cuts in the federal work force & expenditures

then scream bloody murder when a government shutdown closes their local USDA FSA and NRCS offices. They know the staffs of their local FSA/NRCS offices are trusted neighbors but forget those neighbors are also part of the federal workforce they constantly disparage.

I know some food producers who have pounded on the front doors of the homes of furloughed federal employees during shut downs. They desperately need those federal employees who help them negotiate red tape and implement all the federal programs that get them money to help stay in business and improve their farms/ranches and they need those professionals RIGHT DAMNED NOW!

How do I know this? Our front door was one of the many these foolish GOP voters would beat on during shut downs. Ours was one of the phones that would ring at 11 PM when a rancher or farmer would be in a panic trying to find a way to solve an immediate problem.

Farmers and ranchers take out loans to get things they need when they need them, usually in spring and summer. They don't get paid until crops of cattle get sold in fall. They count on reimbursements for the government programs to pay off those short term loans when they come due.

When the government shuts down, because GOP pols can't get their shit together and act like responsible adults, those food producers can't get the payments they need processed by their local FSA office. During shut downs, they can't get NRCS experts out to help them solve problems on their farms/ranches, problems like water distribution, well locations, soil studies, information and plans for new crops, surveys and fencing, etc. The ones who want to stay in business utilize services of expert federal employees for projects that make their places profitable and help them keep it in the family.

IOW, during shut downs, they are screwed. But they can't seem to remember the problems shut downs dropped on their doorsteps from one year to another. Most of them never remember from one election cycle to another.

edited to add a phrase for clarity

[Bayard]

3. A DEI program

That means black, hispanic, and women farmers.

[RVN VET71]

4. I knew they would claim DEI made them do it

These ratf**kers trying to wheedle out of responsibility for screwing over their own voters lack imagination almost as surely as they lack decency, ethics, and integrity.

[Martin68]

5. His base will love that! Keep digging that hole you're in deeper, Dump!

[turbinetree]

6. So it as to be asked...............what are the maga going to eat if there are no crops, who was picking

the crops..................mostly migrants.............

[Vinca]

7. Hey, hey, hey. They need that $300 mil for bombs. Bobby, Jr. says Americans eat too much food anyway.

[ChicagoTeamster]

8. Probably because Vance's Thiel funded venture is buying up distressed farmland.

Trump called veterans suckers and losers and Vance wrote a book demonstrating what he thought of the people he grew up around even lying about his own family. I have known farmers and they work hard. Why would they support Trump and Vance.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. I think that's what is really going on. They are

Forcing the smaller farms out of business so the big
Corporations can take over the industry.

These are not nice guys.

[angryxyouth]

9. Why these cuts should happen

This pod Channel should be on everybody’s regular watchlist! She’s a farmer and a farm business expert. She explains why farms are over subsidized.

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[BumRushDaShow]

11. The "cuts" are NOT happening to the large, white-owned corporate farms

but to the under-served minority (black/brown/indigenous) and urban farmers who have been screwed over and over for a century.

Muskrat had his 19 year old goons run an algorithm looking for the terms "DEI" and used that to cut money.

John Boyd, Jr., head of the National Black Farmer's Association, mentioned some of the issues when the first round of cuts came through last year, with some eventually halted by the courts -

I expect he'll be doing the media rounds again with this.

[Buddyzbuddy]

10. The billionaires want the farms

Farms have water rights, they have real estate and when kept as farms and combined with other farms they can control people's lives via price controls. For example beef prices. They can also be purchased by foreign interests such as Saudi Arabia, an area without the ability to farm but has plenty of money.

But, maybe I'm wrong. We all know how farmers are known for praising programs such as these “involved discriminatory preferences based on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion”

[bluestarone]

12. Gosh, almost like he's NOT worried about votes in November.

We'll see i guess.

[Scalded Nun]

14. Where did Trump's love for you go? Not even a goodbye kiss?