A whistleblower from the Department of Agriculture told NewsNation that the Biden Administration loan relief program purposely hurt White farmers.
The Biden Regime, through the ‘American Rescue Act’ used $800 million in taxpayer money to secretly give loan forgiveness to minority farmers.
“It’s not right,” the USDA whistleblower told NewsNation. “It was discriminatory. Unethical. And the people who pushed it are still in charge of the agency … (those) at the national office. Trump hasn’t gotten rid of them.”
“So just to be clear, if you were American Indian, Alaskan, Native, Asian, Black, African American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Hispanic, or Latino and you were in that group and you were told you didn’t have to pay your bills?” NewsNation asked the whistleblower.
The whistleblower said, according to the American Rescue Plan, the relief was offered up to 120% loan to value which means the farmers could claim they were upside down to get even more cash!
“Essentially, yes, that’s correct. And that your loan would be forgiven up to 120% of the loan value,” the whistleblower said.
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NewsNation's @BrianEntin spoke with a USDA whistleblower who says a Biden-era loan forgiveness program for U.S. farmers was unethical and discriminatory toward white farmers, despite it being pegged as a program to help all farmers.
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A USDA spox gave NewsNation the following statement:
“Over the last four years, the Biden administration left USDA in complete disarray and dysfunction and that’s why farmers were being left behind. The entire farm economy has been hurt by Biden’s inaction. It is absurd that while the Biden Administration was driving up inflation, American taxpayers were forced to fund billions in woke DEI initiatives. No one should be shocked that Biden weaponized bipartisan farm programs to discriminate and provide taxpayer dollars to one group based on race and not on merit.
On day one, Secretary Rollins issued a memorandum to rescind all DEI programs.
Instead, USDA is reprioritizing unity, equality, meritocracy, and color-blind policies. Secretary Rollins directed USDA to review Inflation Reduction Act funding to ensure that it honors the sacred obligation to American taxpayers—and to ensure that programs are focused on supporting farmers and ranchers, not DEI programs or far-left climate programs.
As part of returning the department to normal business operations, Secretary Rollins has ended the four-year-long COVID-19 pause on debt collections. This includes terminating the “Distressed Borrowers” program and servicing those loans.
Unlike the Biden Administration, under Trump, USDA does not discriminate and single out individual farmers based on race, sex, or political orientation. Secretary Rollins is working to reorient the department to be more effective at serving the American people and put farmers first. Fortunately, President Trump is taking strong action to support farmers by quickly rolling out programs like the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program that provides $10 Billion in direct assistance to producers. All farmers are encouraged to apply.”
