Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms and businesses. U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
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The whole point of USAID isn't just to hand out money it's also meant to build alliances overseas and help stop poorer nations from being influenced by authoritarians. As a result of its demise, US will now see a reduction in it's international influence.
I think the thing that annoys me the most is Musk's perception everyone is stupid and just throws money around and he needs to come along and save the day. It's like some kind of popularity contest for him.
Script: "Senator, my name is ____, a concerned US citizen who agrees with you that we must preserve the USAID. People depend on these funds to survive starvation. Please work with any Republicans and Democrats who oppose this before it's too late."
This is part of the plan. The kleptocrats shut down all federally funded programs both domestic and international. Then the rights to replace the programs with privatized corporations are distributed among sycophantic cronies. The Orange Turd and Elmo get kick backs.
That’s fine, other countries will step up to fill the need and US farmers will once again be out in the cold, without subsidies to get them through this time (you don’t think the felon will bail you out again do you?)
I’m sure all those farmers who voted for Trump didn’t connect that his need to burn down the government would lead to loss of sales and contributing to hunger around the world
Isn't it interesting that they had someone involved in the investigation of starlings illegal practices? Sounds like a little conflict of interest has been crushed by presdient musk.
Fallout from dismantling just one govt. agency is this far-reaching. Imagine if they compromise all our departments. And I don't have enough faith in SCOTUS to say everything will be fine in the end. https://youtu.be/b_mDTOKvyV8?si=SKdGXIKvMSIgfZop
The people making decisions with or for Trump are so one dimensional they do not grasp the complexity, nor simple logic, of the impact of their actions. Scary! I would not want to be a passenger in a car they might be driving let alone government agencies.
Maybe that will get some MAGA Republican legislators to arise.
Will their fear of nasty Trump posts, or becoming Trump's target for his personal patriotic militia (released from prison), be outweighed by the outcry of their constituents?
Probably not.
Good. Farmers are not what they want us to think they are. They are greedy corporations that drove those farmers out of business and took over decades ago.
How’s that Iowa corn farmer feeling about his vote today?
Probably hoping Trump will bail him out, they are all about welfare when they are the ones getting paid,
Idiot Rs cancelling everything because they don’t understand or care how complex the USG operations are. It likely will blow back at 🍊💩 from the people who voted him in, they will end up suffering. Consequences.
It's sickening that this is affecting people in regions of our country that overwhelmingly supported him. I understand principles, but at the cost of family.
He don’t understand the ramifications of shutting anything down. Because he can only see as far as his nose tip goes. He is not a qualified politician. So he don’t know how the country works. Sadly it’s going to get so much worse than this. Schools, health, safety. There is so many sectors gutted.
Rather than sending food and medicine that is all ready to go, Trump put a stop to it. Thousands of lbs. of food and medicine are left to rot or go bad, while children are literally dying from starvation and disease. Besides doing good where we can, stopping disease in other countries keeps US safe
A huge wake up call to rural tRump voters. Your savior has forsaken you. Between tariffs and his moves to dismantle government agencies, businesses will be closed and farms will be lost. There will be no bail outs. He doesn’t care.
Same old same old, I think we've been here before, and he's wasting no time in bankrupting the farmers this time. But don't worry the taxpayers will bail them out, at least the multi conglomerates anyway. He doesn't care about the small family farms.
I’m seriously going to talk to my accountant about the repercussions of filing exempt I mean, I’m a W-2 employee now I used to be self-employed. I used to be able to take my own taxes out and do just fine.
So much for America first. Saudi's have been buying up farm land to grow alfalfa bc they can't grow it there. Requires alot of water and they have tight restrictions on water so they come use all of ours. To feed their horses smh wtf is going on
MAGA American farmers are getting a hard lesson in World Economics 101. They apparently forgot this same lesson in the 1st trump admin when China retaliated against tarrifs by tearing up grain contracts and leaving them scrambling for customers. #dejavu
Old Trump Donald had a Musk
EO EO Oh
And with this Musk he raided the Treasury
EO EO Oh
With an injunction here and a barment there
Here a crony. There a crony. Everywhere a phony crony
This coverage is what’s needed. What’s Cromwell and our fat ulcer ridden king doing to the people at home! Dismantling the charities and reap the treasure!
These are trade arrangements worked out with farmers because:
1) it's for a worthwhile cause.
2) it is a type of insurance that benefits everyone. If governments buy commodities it keeps prices stable which benefits farmers & consumers. You don't disrupt markets or contracts.
Musk is an asshat that doesn’t understand things and makes drug fueled decisions because he thinks he’s smart. He shut down a twitter data center and then was told other dependent systems connected to it were broken. Money doesn’t make you smart it makes you arrogant.
We now have leaders who don't trouble themselves with ever looking at the big picture !
It's like the world's food chain ! It's incredible how removing one species or plant can impact so many other living beings !
And if this is being great again, I miss our shit whole country !
I was a farmer/rancher for a decade, it's hard but satisfying work. I found out that as a farmer you can do everything right, raise a bountiful harvest, but then, through no fault of your own, lose everything due to bad weather, insect invasion, or politics - unforgivable because it's preventable.
If a person bury the mother of his 3 older children on a freaking golf course in weeds and scrubs. That tells me he's full of crap no emotion, empathy, and she didn't deserve that. And her children Shameful bunch of narcissistic
people/family!!
I'm still in disbelief all the $$
Pitiful
Musk is a selfish, despicable asshole.
Deport him, before he does any more damage.
Call your Senators & Reps in Congress.
Stop the surreptitious sabotage of our Democracy.
Call everyone you can think of.
Give them all a piece of your mind!
202-224-3121.
I was always under the impression that U.S.Farms and Businesses were Right leaning and supported Republicans, at least they do in Missouri, you mean they are now realizing what we have known all along, #FAFO? Part of me is concerned for USAID, the other part wants to say,”OH Well”!
The impacts of this decision are truly vast. Our country and our world are interconnected, and we're all better off when we focus on lifting each other up. 🤝
Don't think it's about that, not really. Do you guys ever study what they're actually doing? I'm no fan of the right but if I see something I can support, I will. So far they've only targeted waste and fraud. If they stay in that lane, okay.
I live in Chicago...not much space or growing season for enough food for a family. Buying a greenhouse soon to extend the season a bit. Not sure how well it will work.
Yes this hurts more than just “them” What President Muskrat is doing to USAID and therefor hundreds of thousands of people in need (if not more ) is sick. PLEASE SCREAM IN UNISON
They voted en masse for this. I have no sympathy for the farmers who welcomed this back with open arms. Not a shred of it. When they’re auctioning off their equipment and land, I will remind each and every one of them that they were warned and voted for it anyway.
Of course it does. Trump and Elon never considered the delicate balance the how of funds maintain. They are the bulls in the China shop cutting everything.
Sweet! It’s about time those freeloading American farmers get cut off from welfare. Let’s foreclose on their farms and sell them to Chinese and Russian conglomerates! MAGA!!
(*SARCASM* although I bet a lot of them did vote Republican… and didn’t think that Project 2025 applied to them.)
I don’t think trumptilian thought things through. Especially when you consider most farmers I won’t say all farmers but a lot of farmers lean towards the right which would probably make them Rump supporters who bought his bullshit and are now getting fucked.
Jon: this is just the latest example of trump and his sycophants screwing America. The reality is that they neither know nor care what USAID does, and how important is to America. It would be simple to say that Trump is helping Putin, but that’s too simple. He is just inept and stupid.
This is going to push ordinary farmers into bankruptcy. Orders like this can make or break a business. No business can bear the brunt of a huge client suddenly having their funds frozen. I can see why so many of Trumps businesses went to shit. He has absolutely no idea how things work.
Truth, cause and effect are completely beyond him. He is incredibly out of touch. He managed to turn a world class golf course over here into a second rate abomination. He also made every single local absolutely hate him. Honestly, Scots actually make a day out of it to go protest him when he visits
Check this out. He put this up at one of his hotels in Scotland (there was a famous protest outside of this one) :D Note the Roman statue on the top. Pretty daft considering the Romans were forced to build two walls in the end to keep the Scots away from them. I don't think he knows what history is.
Oh, but I’m sure they’ve been told it’s patriotic to not be able to sell your crops, just like other MAGA cult followers now think it’s patriotic to pay twice as much for eggs as they did during the election.
I hate to say this. The small farms didn’t get the welfare checks last time. It was all the larger farms. I think a few were in congress and the Senate. So shame on the smaller farmers for not learning the first time.
I appreciate your information. I'm in the Midwest and in close contact with some farmers. One as small as 400 acres received money but I do not know how much. To your point, many farms now are thousands of acres.
Thank you for letting me know. I had read my information a few years ago. It’s the big farms that want to gobble up the small ones. I want to hope the small farmers survive this round. Than the ones that voted for him kinda deserve it. Farming is hard work.
Well they voted for Trump who turned over “governing” to an immature billionaire who hates that he was being investigated by said agency. Consequences be damned. Don’t worry, Speaker Johnson will announce a massive farm subsidy soon enough and the struggling Monsantos of the world will be whole
@breitbart.com.web.brid.gy @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy I can not wait until the famers and the towns they are located in lose all that income.. You realize yet that the GOP is letting Trump and Elon turn us into a banana republic, the very thing you voted against??
@housegop.bsky.social I can not wait for you to hear from all the farmers you are bankrupting right now. You morons. You are just putting us that much closer to a depression.
A lot of farms in my area never recovered from his first foray and now I noticed there are more up for sale. No farms, no food, not even for them. The stupidity is indescribable.
Samantha Powers mentioned the peanut paste made by GA farmers is a key factor in feeding the severely malnourished. Lots of US business benefit from the USAID services. WIN WIN examples for the US and the poor.
It’s a fucking five alarm fire get off the couch get on your phone. Call the Senate call the house every day burn the lines up take to the streets. It’s on. They’re taking over the government. It’s project 2025 wake the fuck up America.
Undocumented farm workers earn above min wage. the Department of Labor's National Agricultural Survey (NAWS) states the average hourly wages for all farm workers (which 45% are undocumented) is $14-$17 per hour. It's not the wages Americans don't want, it's the work. https://bsky.app/profile/prairierebels.bsky.social/post/3lhhfwnaegs2p
A family friend is a farmer. He tried to get US workers on his farm over last 40 years. If they are hired and show up first day and the following day nobody shows up again. They don’t want to work on farms. They can claim the unemployment benefits. MAGAts better show up for work on farms.
I've been watching tiktoks of people harvesting the fields. These workers work SO hard and, after watching them work, I guarantee most people don't want to be doing this work. And it's such vital work! More important than almost any job out there on our day to day lives 🍑 🌽 🥦🥑🍅🌶
Here in Canada, we are preparing for round 2 of Trump's self destructive "tariffs". Not enough people in America are aware of the multiple billions of dollars worth of agricultural imports supplied each year via Canada. Those poor hard working farmers are going to feel a lot of needless pain.
P.S. I should have clarified that I meant the farmers who *didn't* vote for the con man (again, especially) and not the fools who bought into his load of shit, but it's better to have the full anger that people are feeling on display. It's not like the big name media outlets report it. Good luck !
If we are forced to take countermeasures against his insane aggression toward us, that pain is coming, regardless of need to or not. I agree with you, though. For some people, reality isn't real until it kicks them square in the actuality.
When folks in countries that are know to harbor and foster terror, start dying as a result of doing away with USAID, what do you think they will do about it?
Combine that with the purge at the CIA and FBI and Gabbard as the DNI and it could get REAL BAD. I’m terrified. Everyone should be.
It's amazing what simple working class people are willing to go to prison for or even kill or die for when the wealthy white elitists who convince them to do so continue to live in the lap of luxury.
Trump and his cohorts are going to make the US a third world country. The oligarchies and the people who depend on them for work at any wage to sustain their families.
Then you are almost like family; both my grampas and all my great-uncles were farmers. I'm doing what I can making calls and hoping things can be at least mitigated to the best possible extent. Hang in there, I care, and following
When humanitarian aid is dismantled, it’s not just programs that crumble—it’s lives. Hunger, illness, and instability don’t stay contained. Abandoning the vulnerable isn’t just a moral failure; it’s a global threat. Compassion isn’t weakness—it’s survival. 🌗✨
that's OK, those guys wanted/voted for this admin.
I understand china already canceled their soybean order for the crop that is in the ground. A FAFO moment if ever there was one.
There are many things I did not know about at the start of this mess. But we have all the info available to learn from. People who don't know, don't care to know, they just want someone to blame for their lives. They ❤️ Trump cuz he gives them a target for their anger. There's no excuse for ignorance
Well most of the "Aid" is USA products and services, just like for most other western Countries. It can and does screw up local markets for subsistence farmers. Although the worst thing that the West does is dump subsidized surplus production onto the World Market
A journalist asked Trump spokesman B.S. Malarkey if Christians had responded to President Trump’s cutting of funds for poor by quoting Jesus:
“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
"Who cares," Malarkey said. "Jesus wasn't a billionaire."
Cutting off our noses to spite our faces since these traitorous farmers grow our food. That's why Republicans focused on getting the farmers' support. They know everyone needs them.
Rachel Maddow mentioned last night how USAID was helping Africa with a huge Ebola outbreak that is happening NOW. What would happen if just 1 African comes here, unaware they are infected, and they start the spread here?
The first time that happened, Obama took care of it. Not fast enough according to the news outlets. He got blasted for the way he handled it. Two people died.
we would have to beg the Ugandan government and WHO to help us. Since we are following the "if you don't count it, it doesn't exist, until it kills you 2-3 weeks later" playbook
They figure like last time, they'll bail the farmers out with $$. Be hearing from Grassley any day now (and BTW, he got some of that last bailout money).
They should have learned from the last time when the tariffs he imposed with China resulted in them losing soybean sales and (for some) their farms. They either have short memory spans or they are just plain lacking intelligence.
How many stupid people can be in the RepubliKLAN Party? The word infinite comes to mind. How many greedy people? Infinite. The number of racists? Fascists? Just plain mean people? INFINiTE!
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Tell him to work with Dems to oppose.
Jerry Moran (KS) - High Opposition to Dismantling USAID
Phone: (202) 224-6521
Email: https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-jerry
Address: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 521
Washington, D.C. 20510
🧵 #3E #Protest #Politics
Article: https://kansasreflector.com/2025/02/07/kansas-moran-davids-sound-alarm-on-delay-of-usaid-food-aid-to-starving-people-worldwide/
It’s the Spoils System
Will their fear of nasty Trump posts, or becoming Trump's target for his personal patriotic militia (released from prison), be outweighed by the outcry of their constituents?
Probably not.
Probably hoping Trump will bail him out, they are all about welfare when they are the ones getting paid,
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/usaid-spending-trump-musk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
EO EO Oh
And with this Musk he raided the Treasury
EO EO Oh
With an injunction here and a barment there
Here a crony. There a crony. Everywhere a phony crony
Old Trump Donald had a Musk
EO EO Oh
1) it's for a worthwhile cause.
2) it is a type of insurance that benefits everyone. If governments buy commodities it keeps prices stable which benefits farmers & consumers. You don't disrupt markets or contracts.
It's like the world's food chain ! It's incredible how removing one species or plant can impact so many other living beings !
And if this is being great again, I miss our shit whole country !
Ivanka Trump, however, had no problem taking USAID money.
Farmers should organize a convoy to DC.
people/family!!
I'm still in disbelief all the $$
Pitiful
Deport him, before he does any more damage.
Call your Senators & Reps in Congress.
Stop the surreptitious sabotage of our Democracy.
Call everyone you can think of.
Give them all a piece of your mind!
202-224-3121.
Top Producers
Soybeans - IA IL MN
Wheat - ND KS MT
Rice - LA AK CA MO MS TX
Trump hit China w/ tariffs -> Stopped buy soybeans
Trump paid farmers $25B
LAW: If you fuck farmers or biz with stupid tariffs, US GOV'T CAN'T BAIL THEM OUT
https://youtu.be/qe47hTyUh5g?si=RndY7-xpUCXqmF2j
Zero fucks.
They like that kind of socialism.
Cost more than the 2008 auto bailout but people don't really know about it.
No wonder Trump is re-using The Tariff Gambit
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/31/790261705/farmers-got-billions-from-taxpayers-in-2019-and-hardly-anyone-objected
Farmers were screwed by Trump in his first term. They voted for him again.
Let them get what they voted for.
https://youtu.be/4ExcpEiGjjw?si=j7ra6x8SPOVmtjb3
(*SARCASM* although I bet a lot of them did vote Republican… and didn’t think that Project 2025 applied to them.)
But I bet you is tax payers will find it all. Farmers can sit home and we’ll pay them…
He has no idea how things actually work.
🍊💩😡
Keep up Jon!
https://bsky.app/profile/prairierebels.bsky.social/post/3lhhfwnaegs2p
I bet the talk at the elevator ?
Is fuckin' rich.
Combine that with the purge at the CIA and FBI and Gabbard as the DNI and it could get REAL BAD. I’m terrified. Everyone should be.
I understand china already canceled their soybean order for the crop that is in the ground. A FAFO moment if ever there was one.
Too ignorant to know about supply chain economics and soft politics. Too vile to care.
They truly don't care about anything but their tax cut for the rich, That's what all this cutting is about.
Billionaire and corporation tax breaks
Just dead children. But enjoy your red hats.
“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
"Who cares," Malarkey said. "Jesus wasn't a billionaire."
….now there’s a nightmare worth contemplating
They're going to use the "look how we stepped up and saved the farmers" line again.
Personally, I'm a very big fan of the FAFO and kind of want them to hurt like the rest of us.
You know, the part of the CULT that will be hurt by this?
and they are going to Reap what they Sow
First, they scare off most of their labor force, now they take away their sales outlets.
Well, thoughts and prayers, and leopards, enjoy it.
Considering a lot of the farmers in NC (and beyond) were total MAGAts who voted for this shit... 💁♀️