Posted on 06/16/2025 9:12:22 AM PDT by thegagline
A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities.
The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court in Wisconsin on behalf of a white dairy farmer, Adam Faust.
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The new lawsuit alleges the government has continued to implement diversity, equity and inclusion programs that were instituted under former President Joe Biden. ***
. “After being ignored by a federal agency that’s meant to support agriculture, I hope my lawsuit brings answers, accountability, and results from USDA.”
Trump administration spokesperson Anna Kelly did not immediately respond to an email Monday seeking comment.
The lawsuit contends that Faust is one of 2 million white male American farmers who are subject to discriminatory race-based policies at the USDA.
The lawsuit names three USDA programs and policies it says put white men at a disadvantage and violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal treatment by discriminating based on race and sex.
Faust participates in one program designed to offset the gap between milk prices and the cost of feed, but the lawsuit alleges he is charged a $100 administrative fee that minority and female farmers do not have to pay.
Faust also participates in a USDA program that guarantees 90% of the value of loans to white farmers, but 95% to women and racial minorities.
Faust has also begun work on a new manure storage system that could qualify for reimbursement under a USDA environmental conservation program, but 75% of his costs are eligible while 90% of the costs of minority farmers qualify, the lawsuit contends.
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Awesome lawsuit! Seriously we need more of these, gives cover for Trump to cancel the program to avoid the lawsuit.
Raise cows that produce Chocolate Milk.
Dare ‘em to not give you the money!
I’ve never heard of Trump or any of his cabinet putting tires around the necks of “white farmers” and setting them on fire.
Ping!...................
Good. Settle it and promise never to do it again.
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He won’t need to cancel the program. Use the leftist trick of a settlement. That’s how we got such wacky stuff as the Flores Settlement.
We need to see more of this.
EC
MANURE MANAGEMENT:
USED TO USE A MANURE SPREADER & PUT IT BACK ONTO THE FIELDS AS FERTILIZER. ALL NATURAL. ALL “FREE”.
IDIOTS CLAIM IT IS “DAMAGING”.
CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO COUNT HOW MANY SPREADER LOADS WE PUT BACK ON OUR WISCONSIN DAIRY FARM FIELDS.
DOLE EVEN LEASE FIELDS TO GROW GREEN PEAS BECAUSE THE SOIL WAS SO GOOD.
Paging dimwit shill Brooke Rollins...
So true!
The Trump administration received two letters (April 8 and May 5) which outlined the discrimination. The Administration failed to respond to either of those letters and hence the lawsuit.
I know that this writer is extremely racist against White people.He refuses to capitalize White!
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty
Perhaps we will see “sue and settle” in favor of restoring the Constitutional Republic.
Equal justice under the law.
Chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Or so I was told.
The USDA could settle this out of court if they're willing to make a Faustian bargain.
"Pigford v. Glickman (1999) was a class action lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), alleging that it had racially discriminated against African-American farmers in its allocation of farm loans and assistance from 1981 to 1996. The lawsuit was settled on April 14, 1999, by Judge Paul L. Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. To date, almost $1 billion US dollars have been paid or credited to fewer than 20,000 farmers under the settlement's consent decree, under what is reportedly the largest civil rights settlement until that point. Due to delaying tactics by U.S. government officials, more than 70,000 farmers were treated as filing late and thus did not have their claims heard. The 2008 Farm Bill provided for additional claims to be heard. In December 2010, Congress appropriated $1.2 billion for what is called "Pigford II," settlement for the second part of the case."
Exactly.
Thank you.
The swamp is too big to manage. We need a DOGE agency in every Department.
Brooke Rollins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Rollins
Of course females and other are given preferential treatment - look who’s running the USDA. Its beneath her.
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