Summary
Federal funding cuts under Trump, including a $500 million program for food banks to buy local produce, are hitting rural communities like Rainelle, West Virginia, especially hard.
Dairy producer Trey Yates lost a key contract with Mountaineer Food Bank, threatening his business. Similar stories emerged from other small farmers relying on USDA grants now eliminated.
West Virginia, where Trump won 70% of the vote, relies on federal funds for over half its state budget.
Critics warn cuts will deepen poverty, strain schools, and devastate local agriculture-dependent economies.
And they would vote for him again.
And that’s why I simply refuse to continue to fuckin’ care about what happens to those idiots.
That’s the thing. I’ve worked in lots of rural construction. Their ideology is that he’s the Christian choice, the ideological choice, the choice that will save capitalism. You cannot sway them from these beliefs, even as they starve.
Then let them starve.