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Raw Story: Trump-backing farmers vent Trump pride is now 'hopelessness, frustration, anger' [View all]
Raw Story - Trump-backing farmers vent Trump pride is now 'hopelessness, frustration, anger'
Krystina Alarcon Carroll
May 21, 2025 9:34AM ET
Farmers, who voted for President Donald Trump, are now feeling "helpless, frustrated, and angry" after the administration made cuts to services they rely on, according to the Washington Post.
Vegetable farmers Jacob and Jennifer Thomas have taken more than a 10 percent hit to their bottom line after Trump “abruptly cut $1 billion from two programs that supplied local produce and meat to schools and food banks across the country.”
“The financial insecurity makes my depression worse,” third-generation farmer Jacob Thomas told the Post.
Then, the administration also cut a $8,000 grant, which would have allowed them to build a new greenhouse.
Later, their plans for “a new warehouse and expansion of their farm store are up in the air because of the administration pausing, then unpausing a $750,000 federal agriculture grant,” the Post reports.
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Krystina Alarcon Carroll
May 21, 2025 9:34AM ET
Farmers, who voted for President Donald Trump, are now feeling "helpless, frustrated, and angry" after the administration made cuts to services they rely on, according to the Washington Post.
Vegetable farmers Jacob and Jennifer Thomas have taken more than a 10 percent hit to their bottom line after Trump “abruptly cut $1 billion from two programs that supplied local produce and meat to schools and food banks across the country.”
“The financial insecurity makes my depression worse,” third-generation farmer Jacob Thomas told the Post.
Then, the administration also cut a $8,000 grant, which would have allowed them to build a new greenhouse.
Later, their plans for “a new warehouse and expansion of their farm store are up in the air because of the administration pausing, then unpausing a $750,000 federal agriculture grant,” the Post reports.
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