In the last two presidential elections, farmers voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.

But now some farmers are saying his efforts to cut the government are causing major financial pressure.

William Brigham has more.

Jeff, two of the biggest changes affecting farmers are a freeze on some USDA programs and a near shutdown of spending by USAID, which buys

about $2 billion of products from farmers every year. About 40% of the government's food assistance

comes from American farms. Others say they're on the hook for contracts for renewable energy

equipment that the government promised to help with.

We talked to several people in this field, a flower farmer, a beekeeper, a produce farmer, and the CEO of a nonprofit that delivers food aid to children in Haiti.

Slowly, we've figured out that we've lost about a quarter to a third of our funding,

and we have no sense of whether some of those pauses are permanent or temporary or when that money

can or will come in. We've worked with USAID in several capacities in the past, usually through

key partnerships we have on the ground in Haiti.

And so with the absence of that, it really sets things back significantly.

If it goes past the next couple of weeks, we're really going to be in a tight spot.

We're really probably going to have to either add more debt to our mortgage,

or we're going to have to seriously consider closing up shop

and not operating? We received a grant from the government about a year ago, and that's when we

signed this contract for a solar panel system on our new barn. We still owe about $36,000 to the

solar company that was supposed to come from the government. We never would

have signed a contract with the government for these solar panels if we thought we'd be paying

the full amount. We're looking about $40,000 in losses and then about $20,000 in additional

income we'd be able to, we're not, we won't be able to make.

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