{"id":1056356,"date":"2025-10-02T15:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056356"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:35:06","slug":"trump-continues-to-put-american-farmers-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-continues-to-put-american-farmers-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Continues to Put American Farmers Last\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump promised, \u201cAmerica First,\u201d but time and again, he has put American farmers <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/factpostnews\/status\/1973802758927974673\">last<\/a>. Trump and his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent chose to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/25\/business\/argentina-bailout-trump-milei\">bail out<\/a> Argentina\u2019s economy to the tune of $20 billion while American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/living-paycheck-to-paycheck-youre-not-alone-67-percent-of-people-are-in-2025-11812027\">families<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/16\/trump-tariffs-impacting-american-farmers.html\">farmers<\/a> bear the brunt of his disastrous economic policies. Now, farmers are being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/02\/congress\/farmers-impact-shutdown-republicans-thune-00591654\">hit hard<\/a> by Trump\u2019s government shutdown as USDA\u2019s Farm Service Agency offices that help farmers access loans and other services are being shuttered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In response, DNC Deputy Rapid Response Director Jaelin O\u2019Halloran released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is casting American farmers aside, putting them last while handing out billions of dollars to his buddies overseas. Trump says he \u2018loves farmers\u2019 and that he\u2019ll \u2018never do anything to hurt our farmers,\u2019 but because of him, countless family farms are on the brink of collapse, struggling to sell their crops and avoid going bankrupt. His unnecessary trade war has hollowed out farms across the country, and now, Trump\u2019s government shutdown is dealing another devastating blow. It\u2019s obvious where his priorities lie: Trump first, American farmers last.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump is bailing out Argentina, even after they <a href=\"https:\/\/en.as.com\/latest_news\/trump-backs-milei-with-20-billion-china-buys-argentine-soy-beans-and-us-farmers-are-left-behind-n\/#:~:text=The%20tax%20freeze%20was%20valid%20until%20October,2.7%20million%20metric%20tons%2C%20scheduled%20for%20November.\">sold<\/a> billions of dollars of soybeans to China at a discount, robbing American farmers of critical income and undercutting key trade relationships amid China\u2019s ongoing boycott of U.S. soy. <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/09\/30\/what-happened-soybean-farmers-argentina-china-scott-bessent-phone-texts\/\">Leaked texts<\/a> from Bessent and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins reveal the White House knows how absurd and hypocritical their bailout is, calling it \u201chighly unfortunate.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Trump spends $20 billion to bail out Argentina, American farmers and families are being sold out. Because of Trump\u2019s trade war, millions of Americans are struggling with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/09\/21\/inflation-utilities-housing-healthcare\/\">skyrocketing prices<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/09\/job-market-is-trash-right-now-career-coach-says-heres-why.html\">disappearing job opportunities<\/a> \u2014 and family farms are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arfb.com\/uploads\/pages\/9_farm_bankruptcies_on_the_rise_sept.2025.pdf\">brink of bankruptcy<\/a>. Now, Republicans\u2019 government shutdown is harming families, farmers, and federal workers \u2014 all because Trump and Republicans don\u2019t want to extend ACA subsidies that would prevent health care costs from skyrocketing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/10\/aca-enhanced-subsidies-expire-obamacare-premiums-rise.html\">22 million people<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/quick-take\/about-17-million-more-people-could-be-uninsured-due-to-the-big-beautiful-bill-and-other-policy-changes\/\">15 million<\/a> Americans from losing health care because of Trump\u2019s billionaire-first budget bill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump promised, \u201cAmerica First,\u201d but time and again, he has put American farmers last. Trump and his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent chose to bail out Argentina\u2019s economy to the tune of $20 billion while American families and farmers bear the brunt of his disastrous economic policies. Now, farmers are being hit hard by Trump\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Continues to Put American Farmers Last\u00a0\u00a0 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-continues-to-put-american-farmers-last\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-02T19:35:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-02T19:35:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tristin Byrd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tristin Byrd\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-continues-to-put-american-farmers-last\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-continues-to-put-american-farmers-last\/\",\"name\":\"Trump Continues to Put American Farmers Last\u00a0\u00a0 - 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