Ireland Owens
The president of the budget of the House of Jodey Arrington presented on Tuesday legislation to prevent government agricultural programs discrimination against farmers based on their race or gender.
Legislation, called the Act on a lack of discrimination in agricultural programs, would codify the Department of Agriculture in the USA on July 10 (USDA) rule Which prohibits taking into account racial and sex factors in determining benefits under various agricultural programs, including agricultural loan programs, agricultural management and compensation payment programs. The Act, which was first reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation, will also ensure that such agricultural programs are administered in a way that “maintains the principles of meritocracy, honesty and equal opportunities for all participants.”
“Disasters are not discriminated against by farmers based on their race or gender, like our government programs”, Arrington DCNF said in an exclusive statement. “However, during administration, biden payments of the disaster were separated on the basis of those discrimination factors that had nothing to do with the influence on the disaster. These practices violate our rights and our values, and have no place in America.”
“That is why I am proud to present the Act on lack of discrimination in agricultural programs to provide future administrations that never use factors based on races and sex during the distribution of the critical financing of the agricultural program that is to protect rural America,” the Republican added in Texas.
Under the administration of former president Joe Biden, USDA promoted Various payments and a loan for a disaster programs To “socially unfavorable“Farmers based on About breed or sex. A group of farmers from Texas defendant In April 2024, the USDA of the Biden administration, families that the agency “unconstitutionally and unlawfully” provided some farmers with catastrophe and pandemic funds based on breed and biological sex.
On the first day of his only date of the White House, Biden signed executive order Set the ideology of “justice and racial justice” in all federal government agencies. Arrington – said in December 2023 statement that Biden administration “used the identity policy to direct public policy.”
In June 2024, the Federal Judge in Texas temporarily blocked USDA from the distribution of the support of a disaster to farmers based on his “farmer or ranker”, Washington Post, The Washington Post, The Washington Post Reported. Additionally, the USDA exposure he said Newstion in May that the policy of forgiveness of Biden loans largely provided only support for minority farmers.
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Ireland Owens is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
