Musk's shoddy aim at USAID hit U.S. farmers, too

By Patricia Lopez / Bloomberg Opinion

The U.S. Agency for International Development has provided relief abroad in every kind of humanitarian disaster since its founding in 1961. This time, it is the disaster site; and U.S. farmers are among the collateral damage.

USAID has been struck by the full fury of President Trump, who attacked not only the agency’s existence but its reputation, calling its leaders “radical lunatics” and accusing it, without evidence, of massive corruption.

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After a three-week barrage, USAID is in tatters. Its doors are shuttered, its offices closed, its grants canceled. Thousands of staff have been put on administrative leave, leaving desperately needed projects in limbo.

Their pain is shared by American farmers, who supply more than 40 percent of the food that USAID sends around the world: corn, wheat, soybeans, sorghum and peas. In 2024 alone, the agency paid U.S. farmers $2 billion for those crops.

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