The farmers made their votes to Trump. Now Musk discounts hit them.
It is not exaggerated to say that farmers in America helped Donald Trump’s position in the White House. From 444 provinces It is classified as dependent on the farm By the US Department of Agriculture (US Department of Agriculture), most of which are west of Mississippi and East Rocky, Mr. Trump won all over November 11.
But now, some of these same societies interact with a feeling of panic and anxiety because they are watching the Trump administration to dismantle federal agencies and Freezing Biden Funding programs, which directly affect their economic livelihoods.
Farmers who sell surplus crops to the United States Agency for International Development (the United States Agency for International Development) for distribution abroad are concerned about future purchases and Call State delegations. Business owners who are qualified to grant the US Department of Agriculture and invested in renewable energy technology and climate -resistant crops are not sure if they are paid. Contract lawyers are involved.
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Many voters will not object to the Trump administration closing agencies in Washington, but if their societies feel the effects of discounts, frozen financing and suspended loan guarantees, political winds may change.
Because the courts weigh the legitimacy of President Trump’s wave of executive orders and measures taken by the Ministry of Governmental Efficiency in Illon Musk (DOGE), began to respond from voters in crystallization. One of the main factors for the success of the administration in the coming weeks is whether some of the same people who say they support the pruning of the enlarged federal government, at least in the summary, in feeling differently, as these cuts are crowned through their societies unexpected ways.
“When you start tearing wires from the federal government … unintended consequences may be strong and unexpected,” says Dante Scala, a political scientist at New Hampshire University.
The White House frame a tilted Duji and burns approach as one time an opportunity to finally reduce the government. “Voters want to see these things fixed.” Willie, the Republican strategic expert, says: “They have been elected Trump to do this job.”
So far, opinion polls indicate that Mr. Trump’s efforts to reshape the federal bureaucracy are popular among Republicans. Recent survey CBS News/Yougov Approval of 53 %Classifying a relatively strong in a polarized nation. Mr. Musk is seen less positive, but: more than half of the respondents In Pio Research recently He had an uncomfortable opinion of the richest man in the world, including 24 % of Republicans.
Opinion polls also indicate that voters want to see more measures about daily economic hardships. In the CBS News/Yougov survey, 66 % of the respondents, including nearly half of the Republicans, said that Mr. Trump was not focused enough on lowering prices. The inflation jumped unexpectedly in January and operates by 3 % annually, according to government data issued on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Mr. Musk spoke to correspondents alongside Mr. Trump at the White House of Oval Office, in a clear effort to explain his actions and justification, which critics call an unconstitutional attack on federal agencies. He said he revealed a fraud at the United States Agency for International Development and other agencies, but he did not provide any evidence. He was asked about the arrival of his team to the treasury payment systems – The subject of a court order for the court Mr. Musk said that he provides “participation controls” and that Mr. Trump has won an electoral mandate to reduce federal spending.
“People voted in favor of the great government reform, and this is what people will get,” he said. “This is what democracy revolves around.”
Professor Scala says that the absolute speed and the size of the White House initiatives may work for Mr. Trump. “For people who treat politics as shines in the background, it is a very noisy presidency,” he says. They see Mr. Trump “do a lot.”
Most voters will not object to attempts to close agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development and the Financial Consumer Protection Office, because a few understand what these agencies do or how they can affect them.
But if their local economy is affected by discounts, and voters began to link points between economic pain and Mr. Trump’s policies, the political wind may change, says Professor Scala. It refers to things such as research grants of universities that, although many Republicans are suspicious of, are the main employers and buyers of goods and services in blue and red alike. (On Monday, a federal judge in Boston Prohibited The Trump administration command to reduce general payments for universities and other research centers that receive scholarships from the National Health Institutes.)
Impact on farmers
Farmers who signed contracts with the US Department of Agriculture are invited under the programs funded by President Joe Biden in the Clean Energy Law for the year 2022, which is the law to reduce inflation, now to defend them. The law provided grants and guarantee of loans to farmers to invest in renewable energy systems and plant crops that can stand up to climate change. After Mr. Trump signed an executive order to cancel the Biden era initiatives, instructions were directed to the US Department of Agriculture and other agencies to freeze financing for compliance with new policies.
Among the frozen funds by the Trump administration It is a program worth $ 3 billion He called for partnership for climate criticism commodities. The soybeans in Iowa (ISA) said last week that its members were in financial risk due to suspended compensation.
Farmers “owe $ 11 million for practices that were implemented in 2024”, President of the Association, Brent Swart, He wrote in a letter To the delegation of Congress in Iowa, all of them are Republicans. “We ask for your support in the call to the US Department of Agriculture to honor its contractual commitment to ISA and its commitment to farmers in the Middle West.”
Skylar Holden, a livestock farmer in Missouri, said he invested in a new fence and a well on his farm after signing a contract worth 240,000 dollars with the US Department of Agriculture to exchange costs, and he was told that he would have to wait for the payment. In a series of Tiktok videosHe said he had already spent more on materials to make more improvements on his farm, including water systems, and he relied on promised federal financing. He said: “I have already done a set of work, and I have already paid for materials and employment, so I am outside all this cost.”
Congress approved a bill in January 10 billion dollars of emergency aid For farmers from specific crops, money that is not directly affected by freezing on clean energy -related funds. Chris Gibbs, a farmer and soybean in Chilby Province, Ohio, says he has received assurances from US Department of Agriculture officials who will receive funding. But Mr. Gibbs, a former Republican, has turned into democracy, says he is now concerned about the Trump administration tariff. “Do not forget that everything that farmers buy is made of steel or aluminum.”
In addition to freezing financing, farmers will also lose the dismantling of Mr. Musk to the United States Agency for International Development, which distributes food aid worldwide, including the crops of the United States. Republicans are said to be in Congress Preparing legislation To save the crop crop program with a USAID, at a value of $ 1.8 billion by transferring it to the US Department of Agriculture. Among the draft laws of the law of the Republican Party from Kansas, North Carolina, North Dakota and Arkansas. The program, called Food for People, is the largest food donor for the United Nations World Food Program.
On Tuesday, Mr. Trump opened fire on the Inspector General of the American Agency for International Development, who is appointed by Biden, after he issued a report that explains in detail how Dog’s sudden separation and summoning employees made it impossible to ensure a safe delivery of food aid. Mr. Trump had been rejected by the inspectors in 17 agencies, ignoring the condition of 30 days notification of Congress. Eight of these general inspectors have prosecution The White House on the legitimacy of the separation.
Changes in the Consumer Financial Protection Office
Also on Tuesday, Mr. Trump Nominated A new head of the Financial Consumer Protection Office, which was established by Congress after the 2008 financial crisis for protection from predator lending. CFPB critics argue that he repeats the work of other federal banking organizers and was not responsible to Congress; Defenders refer to their busy record Investigate fines and their imposition Against large banks to deceive consumers. The agency stopped all its investigations, amid exit from job employees and locking its headquarters. It is not clear what will be its future role.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, which helped create CFPB, has fallen into dismantling. On Monday, I addressed a gathering by the Democrats outside the office, which filed a lawsuit against technology companies as well as banks and other financial institutions.
Al -Senator Warren, Mr. Musk, who talked about adding digital payments to X, accused his social media platform, of the progress of his personal and commercial interests at the expense of consumers. She said: “This is a battle between millions of diligent people, who only want to cheat, and a billionaires like Elon Musk who want the opportunity to deceive them.”
At some point, the “Hamkhammer” approach to Mr. Musk for government programs can become a political responsibility towards Republicans, and Mr. Wylie, the strategic expert of the Republican Party, is based in South Carolina.
He says that the Republican Party, who does not emphasize the authority of Congress on budget matters and who simply applaud Mr. Trump for assuming the bureaucracy that may end up in the mid -term elections. If voters see Duji’s actions that affect things such as food prices and open clouds, “the danger is within two years … they are expelled because they did not do their job.”