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

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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).

REFERENCE/RELATED - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143637899

[Chasstev365]

1. But Jesus told them to vote for Trump

[LisaL]

2. I guess they didn't want people to get help from the government.

What they didn't realize that those people are going to be themselves.

[Bayard]

3. A DEI program

That means black, hispanic, and women farmers.

[RVN VET71]

4. I knew they would claim DEI made them do it

These ratf**kers trying to wheedle out of responsibility for screwing over their own voters lack imagination almost as surely as they lack decency, ethics, and integrity.

[Martin68]

5. His base will love that! Keep digging that hole you're in deeper, Dump!

[turbinetree]

6. So it as to be asked...............what are the maga going to eat if there are no crops, who was picking

the crops..................mostly migrants.............

[Vinca]

7. Hey, hey, hey. They need that $300 mil for bombs. Bobby, Jr. says Americans eat too much food anyway.

[ChicagoTeamster]

8. Probably because Vance's Thiel funded venture is buying up distressed farmland.

Trump called veterans suckers and losers and Vance wrote a book demonstrating what he thought of the people he grew up around even lying about his own family. I have known farmers and they work hard. Why would they support Trump and Vance.