WaPo explains just how severely Trump has screwed American farmers

[Miles Archer]

The original WaPo article (behind the paywall): https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/trump-farmers-grants-freeze-usda-migrants/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f005

The Raw Story link: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-farmers-2672410822/

In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colorado, the Washington Post is reporting that he along with other farmers are facing possible ruination now that the round-up of immigrants have begun in earnest and promised helpis uncertain.

"The federal government had promised JJ a $200,000 grant, spread across two years, to cover the cost of a seasonal farmhand from Latin America. In a place where local, legal help was nearly impossible to keep

[Walleye]

1. Does he regret his vote now that he's being royally screwed? No he wouldn't vote for "cackling Kamala"

Even though Trump had said everything bad he was gonna do to the farmers. Men, they never listen.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Their irrational hatred outweighs their own survival.

[Walleye]

4. It's horrible to witness this happening to our fellow Americans. There's nothing left in their minds but hatred now.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes PutinGOP and Fox News did one hell of a job didn't they?

Brainwashed an entire country.

[ananda]

10. They'll still whine and complain about it though.

I am so sick of this shit.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Exactly. They will bitch up a storm about Trump but still vote for him. It is a cult.

[JI7]

2. Don't give a shit. They got what they voted for.

[liberalhistorian]

6. At this point, I have zero sympathy

and simply no fucks left to give for farmers and rural areas. I've lived lengthy amounts of time in both rural and urban areas and farmers and rural folk have brought this shit on themselves by themselves. For fifty years, they've consistently voted for the party who couldn't give a half-pellet of rat shit about them; in fact, many in said party enjoy disdaining and denigrating them and have no respect for the critical role of farmers.

For fifty years, farmers and rural areas have bashed and trashed the very party that brought them many of the programs that they so strongly rely on and whose elimination would collapse too many rural and farm economies. The very party that continues to do whatever it can for farmers/rural areas, including opposing the elimination of badly needed programs and policies.

Trump fucked them over during his first administration and did not at all hide his intentions or policies. They have NO ONE but themselves to blame!

[Fullduplexxx]

7. On purpose so corporations can swoop in and buy it cheap at the auction

[LuckyLib]

8. To each farmer who complains, we ask "Who did you vote for?"

[malaise]

9. Farmers?

He is screwing everyineJust wait for the cost of fruit and vegetables in a few weeks