Senate Democrats assail Trump's $16B bailout for farmers
Source: Associated Press
Steve Karnowski, Associated Press Updated 4:59 pm CST, Tuesday, November 12, 2019
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump's $16 billion bailout package for farmers hurt by the trade war with China unfairly benefits the South at the expense of the North and wealthy producers over smaller farms, Democratic senators concluded in a report released Tuesday.
The report, one of the sharpest congressional critiques yet of the Market Facilitation Program, said five southern states receive the highest average payments per acre under the program — Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas. The analysis by Democratic committee staffers concluded that farmers in the Midwest and Northern Plains have been hurt the most.
It also asserted that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has done nothing to target the assistance to vulnerable small, medium and beginning farmers. Instead, it said the agency doubled the payment limits, directing even more money to large, wealthy farming partnerships.
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Sen. Debbie Stabenow, of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, said the program also lacks any plan for rebuilding or replacing the markets that farmers have lost since they became caught up in the trade war last year. She leveled the charges in a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue that accompanied the 12-page report.
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Something you won't hear from a Trump-country farmer:
Rejecting Donald's socialism.
Oh...wait. 
Yes, your northern and western tax dollars are going into the pockets of some white, dough boy in Mississippi named Cletus. You see, Cletus needs a new pickup and we're all gonna have to chip in thanks to IQ45. 
