She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.
She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.
Rebecca Carlson planned to use a USDA grant to hire overseas workers for her cherry harvest. A funding freeze has left her in debt and unsure whether she can hire the workers.
Summary
Michigan farmer Rebecca Carlson, a longtime Trump supporter, faces bankruptcy as Trump’s funding freezes stall a $400,000 USDA grant for hiring temporary workers.
Carlson, who hoped Trump’s second term would revive her struggling cherry farm, already spent $200,000 preparing for labor under the H-2A visa program.
With funding halted, she risks losing $200,000 more and can’t move forward with critical hires.
Trump’s new tariffs and immigration crackdowns threaten agriculture costs and labor availability, leaving farmers uncertain and frustrated with unmet promises.
I seriously hate these people more than Trump.
I mean, did they do literally no research into what his policy proposals were? What the repercussions would be for those in her line of work? Did it not occur to her that the migrants she pays shit wages to were the people he was ranting about deporting?
The answer, of course, is no. She did no research. She dedicated no meaningful thought to it. She wanted to fuck the liberals because they put Harriet Tubman on a twenty dollar bill and she heard about the three trans athletes in her entire state and that was about where her consideration of the matter ended.
On a just barely positive note, we dedicate a frankly stupid amount of funding to keeping farms going despite their being laughably uncompetitive, most of the funding not really helping our food supply or economy, so it would probably be for the better if these cuts stick and idiots like her are forced to actually run their farms like businesses instead of thousand acre welfare queens.
Her farm had been awarded a grant worth $400,000 through the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help pay for the costs associated with hiring seasonal workers from overseas through the H-2A visa program, which farmers have used for years to hire temporary agricultural workers.
The USDA describes the program on its website as a way to address labor shortages on American farms and reduce illegal immigration. It's backed by $65 million in funding from the American Rescue Plan, a Covid stimulus bill passed in 2021.
IOW she was only getting that $400K because of a program funded under Biden. Which of course is why trump is freezing it, along with programs funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, also passed under Biden. He wants to undo everything Biden did.
Carlson has been trying to get an answer from the USDA about the status of her grant, but her grant manager told her that they were “awaiting guidance from leadership.” When she followed up more recently, she received an out-of-office email.
Because they got fired!
I'm sorry, if you're growing cherries, fucking expensive ass cherries, and can't stay afloat without almost a half million dollars of welfare, then what the fuck are you even doing? I don't fully agree with it, but I at least understand the importance of giving welfare to people growing crops we actually need, but frivolous shit like cherries? What a waste. If we're paying almost a half million dollars in taxes to give you cherry welfare, those cherries better be free or close to it.
"I’ll admit to you, I bleed Republican. (...) Her farm had been awarded a grant worth $400,000 through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (...) Carlson was planning to use her USDA grant money to hire 10 temporary workers from Guatemala to help with this year’s harvest."
The sheer amount of stupidity is crazy. The same people that were crying that everything bad was the fault of Biden actually had they farm working thanks to Biden.
Will they realize at some point ?
Zero fucking sympathy for the longtime Nazi and Russian supporting POS. Don't worry, your farm will end up in corporate hands thanks to your pure racist stupidity.
A half million for temporary workers. Nice to see republicans embracing socialism and public welfare to prop them up.
She sounds pretty dumb. Maybe someone smarter will take over the farm.
MAGA, by hiring foreign people because as she says, “The American worker doesn’t like labor, they don’t like to do laborious jobs”.
400k for 10 workers. How much of that do they make? Why isn’t she working hard? Let her farm go under, she’s a welfare queen. What a dumb cunt.
Who could have seen this coming, except for EVERYONE! Lose your farm, get fucked and don't vote for a fascist next time.
Oh no. Anyway.
Those immigrant workers were stealing valuable and very in-demand American fruit and vegetable picking jobs. Surely now she can hire from the huge line of American workers desperate to do this job. /s
So these are the real welfare queens, not the people they voted to hurt. Fuck them and their farm.
“I was expecting to see a drastic turnaround for the better for my farm because the Republicans have always been for the American farmer,” said Carlson, a longtime Republican and Trump supporter.
If there's anything good that could come out of the entire Trump situation, it would be finally breaking the illusion and myth that Republicans are good for the economy and Republicans are good for farmers. It's apparent they will try to keep their head in the sand until they nearly suffocate though.
They are dumbasses who deserve everything they encounter.
Fuck them.
Trump doesn't care about small businesses? But how????
Yesss, go bankrupt to own the libs!
Haha, stupid fucks. You get what you voted for. I hope your farm closes down. Scumbag people.
One thing that trump is good at is making companies go bankrupt just like his casinos.
If you're so into republican policies, why not look back through all they've done. Notice a lack of small farms and farmers compared to decades ago?
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Friday that the department was looking into program to help "mitigate any economic catastrophes that could happen to some of our farmers." Asked whether that would include direct payments, Rollins said, "We're working that out right now."
So they're looking into a mitigation program, they're working out a payment system... now? After annihilating government programs, starting a trade war with everyone and wrecking farmers' prospective income?
Thank goodness the US Govt is now in the hands of such professional, forward-thinking people who care about ordinary Americans and businesses. Such a relief after those radical lunatics who used to run things into the ground!
And they will learn nothing from it lmao
Why would she need a grant for hiring workers when they are about to be deported?
Anyway, dear Leopard, have a nice lunch of faces.
I hope it withers and blows away. It's what she deserves for voting Trump.
“ThE lEopArDs aTE mY StuPiD, uGLy fAcE!!!”
I hope she faces bankruptcy. If you are too stupid to understand the basics of economy then you should be a director of a company.
Electing a criminal is such a great idea.
You have sown the wind, and now you shall reap the whirlwind.
Choices and consequences. Hope they learn and I really don't care if they learn the hardest way possible, the family deserves it.
Bunch of welfare queens.
Retard alert class! Retard alert! - Mr. Garrison
these people hurt them self's. you cant feel bad for people who stab them self's in the leg. you just cant.
You get what you deserve! #jokerwasright
Fucking rights. Lose everything
Good.
Lol