A Missouri cattle farmer is facing financial ruin after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) froze funding for key conservation programs, despite previously signed contracts with the government.

The freeze, part of the Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of spending programs, has left Skylar Holden, a first-generation farmer, scrambling to save his land.

Holden, who voted for President Donald Trump, had signed a $240,000 contract with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to improve water lines, fencing, and wells on his farm.

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    7 days ago

    everyone had the same amount of time as you and many of us correctly identified Trump’s fascism when he ran his first victorious campaign. these people are never going to accept that they were ignorant, short sighted, naive, stupid, and so full of hate it blinded them to explicit propaganda.