Trump Sending Millions to Brazil, but $$$ Was for American Farmers!

A Brazilian U.S. subsidiary is being paid over $60 million in aid aimed at helping American farmers weather President Donald Trump’s trade war, according
to media reports.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is paying $40.1 million to buy pork from JBS USA — a subsidiary of Brazil-based JBS SA — using American taxpayer
bailout funds intended to help U.S. farmers. That’s in addition to previously awarded pork contracts for $22.3 million, The Greeley Tribune reported Thursday.

“Why is the USDA bailing out plants operated by JBS, the largest meatpacker in the world, with a program designed to help domestic companies and producers
under economic duress?” Food & Water Watch lobbyist Tony Corbo asked The New York Daily News, which first reported the payments.

The money led Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) to introduce a House bill last week “to require that purchases of agricultural commodities made by the Secretary
of Agriculture ... be from domestically owned enterprises.”

“It is clear the president is not the least bit knowledgeable about trade policy, nor aware of the chaos his failed approach has caused‚” DeLauro told the News.

“We now know that tens of millions of these dollars went to large, multinational corporations — including Brazilian-owned JBS — who are racking up profits while
family farmers face collapse. That is outrageous.”

The Brazilian company has been involved in corruption scandals in its home country. The U.S. Justice Department has also launched an investigation into owner
brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista, who have confessed to bribing top Brazilian officials, and served time in jail there.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/brazil-subsidiary-hoovers-up-dollar62-million-in-trump-trade-war-aid-intended-for-farmers/ar-AABwPag?ocid=spartanntp

Once again Trump is catering to the rich and foreign interests, while American farmers suffer.