The director of the Gardner Agricultural Policy Program at the University of Illinois says the Trump administration’s freezing of USDA funding is having far reaching consequences. Jonathan Coppess tells Brownfield, “These are duly appropriated, constitutionally appropriated funds by Congress.” He says, “The federal courts have been telling the administration to unfreeze them. We’re still waiting to […]
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