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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts) Mon Oct 1, 2018, 06:52 AM Oct 2018

Millionaire Chuck Grassley applies for Trump bailout funds

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/grassley-applying-for-trumps-farm-bailout-funds_us_5bb15303e4b0343b3dc1591c

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported President Donald Trump’s $12 billion bailout for U.S. farmers to mitigate the damaging effects of the trade war. Now the senator is applying for those same bailout funds for his own 750-acre Iowa farm, The Washington Post reports.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is also applying for payments.

In the spring, Grassley issued a statement saying that the Trump administration had a “responsibility to help” farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs set by China after Trump enacted tariffs against Chinese imports.

Bailout money isn’t being provided to other industries impacted by the trade war. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has already cut some 7,800 checks worth a total of $25 million for farmers, many in the swing states of the Midwest that voted for Trump in 2016.

Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), the ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, argued against using a bailout program to mitigate a problem created by the administration, saying it would set a bad precedent by politicizing farm payments. Farmers “want their markets left intact and not screwed up by some policy,” he said earlier this year.

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Millionaire Chuck Grassley applies for Trump bailout funds (Original Post) mfcorey1 Oct 2018 OP

The republicans are bastardizing our hard-earned tax dollars to buy off... Achilleaze Oct 2018 #1

GOP: Greedy old pr**ks Quemado Oct 2018 #2

Can you post the allowed four paragraphs? Site keeps going 404 on my phone Roland99 Oct 2018 #3

Millionaire Sen. Chuck Grassley Applying For Trump's Farm Bailout Funds Eugene Oct 2018 #4

Thanks! What a greedy asswipe. Probably uses undocumented workers like the Nunes farm there Roland99 Oct 2018 #6

Grassley grows corn and soybeans. Hortensis Oct 2018 #5

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

1. The republicans are bastardizing our hard-earned tax dollars to buy off...

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 06:55 AM

Oct 2018

Big Ag, Inc. & its genetically modified minions for this election. This is our money. repubes are using it for their own electoral bribe.

Grassley is all-in, of course, on the KGOP republican payola scheme, using our money. Greedy Old Bastards.

Quemado

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2. GOP: Greedy old pr**ks

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Mon Oct 1, 2018, 07:01 AM

Oct 2018

Greedy
Old
Pr**ks

Roland99

(53,342 posts)

3. Can you post the allowed four paragraphs? Site keeps going 404 on my phone

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Mon Oct 1, 2018, 07:16 AM

Oct 2018

Eugene

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4. Millionaire Sen. Chuck Grassley Applying For Trump's Farm Bailout Funds

Reply to Roland99 (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 07:31 AM

Oct 2018

Source: Huffington Post

POLITICS 09/30/2018 11:39 pm ET

Millionaire Sen. Chuck Grassley Applying For Trump’s Farm Bailout Funds

He’s dipping into Trump administration’s $12 billion program to subsidize farmers hurt by Trump’s trade war.
By Mary Papenfuss

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported President Donald Trump’s $12 billion bailout for U.S. farmers to mitigate the damaging effects of the trade war. Now the senator is applying for those same bailout funds for his own 750-acre Iowa farm, The Washington Post reports.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is also applying for payments.

In the spring, Grassley issued a statement saying that the Trump administration had a “responsibility to help” farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs set by China after Trump enacted tariffs against Chinese imports.

Bailout money isn’t being provided to other industries impacted by the trade war. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has already cut some 7,800 checks worth a total of $25 million for farmers, many in the swing states of the Midwest that voted for Trump in 2016.

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Roland99

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6. Thanks! What a greedy asswipe. Probably uses undocumented workers like the Nunes farm there

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Mon Oct 1, 2018, 07:54 AM

Oct 2018

Hortensis

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5. Grassley grows corn and soybeans.

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 07:31 AM

Oct 2018

Mrs. Overall posted a really good article at https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11216302

It starts out about how Devon Nunes is tricking voters into believing he's a California dairy farmer when he and his family moved their farm to Rep. Steve King's district in Iowa a decade ago. But it's mostly about how farmers in that intensely conservative area and other states are living in fear of being ruined by Republican policies, immigration labor especially, even as they continue to vote Republican.

It's long, but a quick scan of the beginning's very worthwhile. A lot recounts the reporter being followed around by Nunes family members, also the farmers' plight in detail. They started wanting him to understand but quickly shut up, afraid that his story might bring ICE down on them. An ICE raid and subsequent jail and large fines can ruin a farmer for years, or permanently.

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