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🗓️ 25 June 2025
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In a surprising twist of events, a white dairy farmer from Wisconsin is suing the Trump administration for discriminating against white farmers. The details of this story trace back to a Biden administration diversity, equity, and inclusion program hidden within the American Rescue Plan.
Let’s go through the legal history of this program, as well as what remnants of it remain within the U.S. Department of Agriculture today.
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0:00.0 | The story that I want to present to you today has a bit of a surprising twist that it's a bit unexpected. |
0:06.0 | A white male farmer, specifically a dairy farmer out in Wisconsin, is suing the Trump administration for discriminating against white farmers. |
0:16.0 | I'll repeat that for emphasis. A white farmer is suing the Trump administration for anti-white discrimination. |
0:23.3 | Now obviously, there is more to this story than just meets the eye. And so let me present to you |
0:28.1 | the relevant background for how we got to this point. And then I'll explain to you exactly what |
0:32.3 | the lawsuit is actually about. During the Biden administration, the first major piece of legislation that was actually passed |
0:39.2 | was the American Rescue Plan. That was the $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed in March of 2021. |
0:46.5 | And included in the text of that bill was an $800 million provision that implicitly allowed for the |
0:52.6 | discrimination against white farmers. |
0:55.0 | Specifically, this was a race-based loan forgiveness program, and here was exactly what the relevant |
1:01.0 | piece of the text in the law actually said. |
1:04.0 | The U.S. Department of Agriculture shall provide a payment in an amount up to 120% of the outstanding indebtedness of each socially |
1:13.6 | disadvantaged farmer or rancher as of January 1st, 2021 to pay off their direct farm loans. |
1:20.6 | The text of the law, it then went on to explicitly break down who exactly qualified for this program. |
1:26.6 | And so what it meant is that if you were a farmer somewhere in America who is either |
1:31.3 | black, Asian, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Alaska Native, |
1:37.3 | or American Indian, you not only did not have to pay back your debt, |
1:42.3 | but also your loan would be forgiven for up to 120% |
1:47.0 | of the loan value, meaning in theory you could actually make a tidy profit in the process. |
1:52.0 | But if you were a white farmer, you did not qualify. |
1:55.0 | No matter how poor you were, no matter how many economic troubles you were facing, |
2:00.0 | even if you were literally on the brink of bankruptcy, |
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