December 2, 2019 Trump Cuts Food Stamps for Hungry Americans, But Handouts to Rich Land Barons Keep Coming Previously at EWG. Just in time for Christmas, the Trump administration has finalized a rule to kick 700,000 hungry Americans off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
September 11, 2019 Trump Campaign Advisors Receive Over $2 Million in Trade Bailout Payments Previously at EWG. Fifteen members of an agribusiness council that advised Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign have received $2.2 million from the federal bailout…
July 30, 2019 USDA Bailout for Impact of Trump’s Tariffs Goes to Biggest, Richest Landowners Previously at EWG with Chris Campbell. Farm bailout payments designed to offset the impacts of President’s Trump’s trade war have overwhelmingly flowed to the…
July 11, 2019 Trump’s Farm Bailout Program Continues USDA’s Racist Legacy Previously at EWG. President Trump’s tariffs are a disaster for American soybean farmers, effectively cutting off access to China, their largest market. The Department…
September 20, 2017 Members that Voted Against Harvey Aid Received $650K in Farm Disaster Aid On September 8th Congress voted for relief for Americans impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Several callous members voted no, citing their conservative ideology, even though…
September 14, 2017 Trump’s Farm Guy Spreads Food Stamp Fraud Manure Today the Senate Agriculture Committee is holding a hearing on fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — better known as food stamps….
March 27, 2016 An Issue The Food Party Can Cotton To U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack remains wisely unswayed by House Agriculture Committee pleas to reclassify cottonseeds. According to the cotton industry, low…
January 21, 2016 Iowa “Corn”servatives Backing Rubio Recieved $4.7 Million in Subsidies Marco Rubio’s campaign for the GOP presidential nomination is doing well enough in Iowa that he recently announced an agriculture leadership team to bolster…
December 15, 2015 Ted Cruz’s Million Dollar Food Stamp Question Politico reported on GOP presidential nomination Senator Ted Cruz’s recent crop insurance flip-flop. Crop insurance — essentially Obamacare for corn — is heavily subsidized. It’s…
November 1, 2015 A Food Party Dress Rehearsal Wednesday’s handshake agreement to possibly stave off cuts to subsidies to insurance companies for administering the crop insurance program was a master class in…
