Summary
Michigan farmer Rebecca Carlson, a longtime Trump supporter, faces bankruptcy as Trump’s funding freezes stall a $400,000 USDA grant for hiring temporary workers.
Carlson, who hoped Trump’s second term would revive her struggling cherry farm, already spent $200,000 preparing for labor under the H-2A visa program.
With funding halted, she risks losing $200,000 more and can’t move forward with critical hires.
Trump’s new tariffs and immigration crackdowns threaten agriculture costs and labor availability, leaving farmers uncertain and frustrated with unmet promises.
I seriously hate these people more than Trump.
I mean, did they do literally no research into what his policy proposals were? What the repercussions would be for those in her line of work? Did it not occur to her that the migrants she pays shit wages to were the people he was ranting about deporting?
The answer, of course, is no. She did no research. She dedicated no meaningful thought to it. She wanted to fuck the liberals because they put Harriet Tubman on a twenty dollar bill and she heard about the three trans athletes in her entire state and that was about where her consideration of the matter ended.
On a just barely positive note, we dedicate a frankly stupid amount of funding to keeping farms going despite their being laughably uncompetitive, most of the funding not really helping our food supply or economy, so it would probably be for the better if these cuts stick and idiots like her are forced to actually run their farms like businesses instead of thousand acre welfare queens.
Holy shit lol
She is racist.
That’s why she voted for Trump.
All the excuses she gives are secondary to the fact that she’s white and hates seeing non-whites who didn’t work as hard as her get government cheese.
These people voted Trump not because of “fuck the libs” or “save my farm” but because, they were first and foremost, racists.
They “researched” hard enough to see the ® beside his name and voted based on that research.
You are right but it still makes me sad that she’s just going to get gobbled up by some factory farm. Some about leopards and faces I guess.
That is literally what will happen if small farms go under. This would make our food supply chain even more homogeneous and less resilient. And probably increase costs at the supermarket as a result. It’s too bad so many of these farmers are actively voting against their actual interests instead. For many of them the “find out” phase will hit them like a semi truck and they will never recover.
Lyndon B Johnson
(Why did I think it was Steinbeck)
LBJ and Steinbeck were contemporaries. LBJ was born and died a few years after Steinbeck.
Well, they will echo fox news narrative to blame dems and Obama and Biden.
Shouldn’t make you sad it should make you angry. She voted for this and now wants sympathy. Her and her farm can fucking burn, consequences of actions n that.
Farmers in the US are just welfare nobility
Not really. The few independent small farmers left are just trying to make a living and raise their families.
The problem is the big conglomerate farms that own millions of acres that siphon off millions of gallons of water because they can.