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Kind Criticizes USDA for Using Bailout Funds to Buy Brazilian Pork
USAgNet - 01/15/2019

Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind criticized the USDA for using taxpayer dollars to buy $5 million in pork products from a Brazilian-owned company. In a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Kind said the pork was purchased using funds dedicated to the farm bailout program, which was intended to help American farmers hurt by President Trump's trade war.

Kind claims that in November, the USDA awarded Smithfield Foods, a Chinese-owned company, $240,000 in payments from funds intended to be used for the trade war bailout program. Smithfield Foods later rescinded the bid after public backlash.

"By sending a $5 million check to Brazilian pork producers, the USDA is rubbing salt in the wound for the thousands of Wisconsin family farmers caught up in the trade war," Kind said. "I am calling on Secretary Perdue to immediately stop sending Wisconsinites' money to Brazil, and provide a full list of any foreign-owned companies getting the assistance American farmers so badly need."

The La Crosse Democrat also called on the Trump Administration to provide a list of all foreign-owned companies that have received money from the bailout program.


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