"Billions of dollars at stake for farmers hit by Trump funding freeze, pause on foreign aid"

FULL STORY from Georgia Recorder

EXCERPTS:

• Farmers across the United States are finding themselves in precarious economic positions, as they attempt to navigate a strained farm economy and a barrage of executive orders from the Trump administration that put some farm programs in limbo.
• In his first month in office, President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders to pause or cancel federal funding on a range of programs and grants — some of which go directly to farmers.
• Even though the administration said it would not stop payments to individuals and courts have ordered the administration to resume the programs, many farmers are awaiting payments on their contracts and have not been told when or if they can expect to receive expected funding. Billions of dollars are at stake.

IndieDems Comment:

Question to Rep. Barry Loudermilk and all the other Republican U.S. Representatives from Georgia: What are you doing about this? So far as I can determine, absolutely nothing. Your being a Trump lapdog means more to you than the welfare of Georgia farmers.