Trump Screws Over His Base, Part the Zillion
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If this keeps up, Republicans will only win 86% of Kansas farmers in 2028 instead of the usual 88%.
Farming in Kansas can be clouded with uncertainty, like harsh weather and limited natural resources. But current funding freezes have added a new variable and left some of them with empty hands.
Some farmers have not been paid out for work they already completed under contracts signed last year. At least millions of dollars are left in limbo.
After the administration of President Donald Trump ordered a funding freeze of the Inflation Reduction Act from the Biden administration, waves of federal funding have ceased. The U.S. Department of Agriculture had funding tied up under that act. Some programs were put on pause, leaving Kansas farmers and rural communities looking for answers.
Rural renewable energy projects and conservation funding have also been stalled on the High Plains.
Bill Shaw, owner of Shaw Feedyard in Ashland, has a contract worth $600,000 for rural energy development. He said he never thought twice about the government holding up its end of a contract, until now.
“Now the USDA is telling me I may not get paid and I don’t understand how that’s possible,” Shaw said. “If I have a contract with the government they hold me to it. I’m doing the same.”
The freeze has paused payments from the Rural Energy for America Program, or REAP. The program was meant to help ag workers become more energy efficient and produce renewable energy. This would cut their energy costs while offsetting some of the negative environmental impacts farming can produce.
I’d like to say that folks will learn, but in places like this, I don’t think they will. Not so long as Democrats are equated with Satan incarnate, no matter what they say or do.