Donald Trump doesn’t just neglect rural communities he actively undermines them. Let’s take three concrete examples where his actions have betrayed the people he claims to champion.
First, the program known as Essential Air Service (EAS), which subsidizes flights into remote and rural airports across the country, is being allowed to collapse on his watch. The U.S. Department of Transportation warns that funding could expire imminently, cutting off vital links to medical care, commerce and connectivity for hundreds of rural communities. If you live in a rural town, losing affordable air links is a lifeline that is being pulled away.
Next comes the shocking billion-dollar bailout of Argentina. Trump’s decision to throw billions at Argentina’s economy while U.S. soybean and cattle farmers suffer is a rebuke his promised “America First” posture. U.S. farmers and ranchers are the backbone of rural communities and are watching as their markets are undercut by U.S. policy that benefits foreign producers. Why help Argentina’s beef and soy compete with U.S. producers when your base is mostly in farm country? The message here is that Trump doesn't give a damn.
Third are the Trump tariffs. Sold as a way to protect American workers and producers, these heavy-handed trade measures hit rural agriculture hardest. Exports tumble, input costs rise, and small-scale family farms are squeezed even more tightly. The Trump-era tariffs have deepened the crisis in U.S. agriculture, raising costs, closing markets, and leaving family farmers worse off than before. When asked about the fallout, Trump blames the farmers themselves telling cattle ranchers to get their prices down despite their mounting losses.
The message is clear for rural America.
The airports you rely on? Trump says your expendable.
The markets you thought Trump would protect? Trump uses billions of American tax dollars to bailout foreign nations instead.
The tariffs he used to promise would save you? Trump is using them to strangle you.
What we see from Trump if full blown neglect while the benefits are going out of the country while Trump builds ballrooms and dines with billionaires.
Ask yourself this, when has Trump invited a worker or a farmer to the White House?
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