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

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).

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