Summary
Federal funding cuts under Trump, including a $500 million program for food banks to buy local produce, are hitting rural communities like Rainelle, West Virginia, especially hard.
Dairy producer Trey Yates lost a key contract with Mountaineer Food Bank, threatening his business. Similar stories emerged from other small farmers relying on USDA grants now eliminated.
West Virginia, where Trump won 70% of the vote, relies on federal funds for over half its state budget.
Critics warn cuts will deepen poverty, strain schools, and devastate local agriculture-dependent economies.
Half their budget? They are welfare queens and/or socialists, take your pick.
And yet they’re all convinced that red states are the ones that keep the blue states afloat.
Yep. You want to slash the Federal budget? Making red states and billionaires pay their fair share will go a long way.
And you won’t have to fire Federal workers to do it.
Of course that would only work if they gave a shit about the budget as opposed to whatever the fuck this governmental smash & grab this is.