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King Donald won 70% of votes in West Virginia and has cut a $500 million program for food banks to buy local produce that is kicking in the teeth of small farm operators in the state.

The phone rang over the whine of Trey Yates' butter churn. The person calling was polite, but the message was devastating: Mountaineer Food Bank was ending Yates' butter contract, due to the federal government's funding cuts.

The next day, President Donald Trump signed a declaration celebrating National Agriculture Day, praising farmers and food makers like Yates. But the canceled contract with the federally funded food bank, one of only two in West Virginia, had been a lifeline for Yates' business.

Yates was shocked that the Trump administration would take such action. Yates called his father to tell him: "Dad, they're trying to bankrupt me."

Sorry, Trey, but ETTD and there's going to be a lot more of that going around. We'll see tomorrow if King Donald is going to stick to his guns and enact those 20% tariffs.

What's the over/under on him wimping out and pushing them out another month?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-funding-c...

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