Update: Trump's USDA Trade Bailout Flows to City Slickers, a D.C. Lobbyist and 'Farms' on Golf Cours
Farm bailout payments intended to offset the impacts of President Trump’s trade war have instead flowed to an estimated more than 9,000 “city slickers” who live in the nation’s largest cities, an updated EWG analysis of Department of Agriculture data shows.
A previous EWG analysis showed that the first two rounds of Market Facilitation Program payments, totaling $8.4 billion through the end of April, overwhelmingly went to the largest and richest farm operations. Those payments are only a fraction of the almost $16 billion in payments still expected to come.
Now a closer look at the USDA data, obtained by EWG through the Freedom of Information Act, shows that many recipients live not in farm country but in the nation’s 50 largest cities or in other decidedly nonrural locations.
https://www.ewg.org/agmag/2019/08/update-trump-s-usda-trade-bailout-flows-city-slickers-dc-lobbyist-and-farms-golf
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