As the Biden Administration continues to push a race ideology many Americans find unpalatable, a federal judge just ruled against President Biden's (D) race-based farmer relief plan.
The president's $4 billion loan forgiveness program was designed to compensate farmers for their losses but gained national attention when rumors of prioritizing farmers of color began to circulate around mainstream media.
Breitbart News reported that Wisconsin Judge William Griesbach, a George W. Bush appointee, recently ruled against the proposal because "the plan did not give adequate examples of recent hardships imposed on minority farmers."
"The obvious response to a government agency that claims it continues to discriminate against farmers because of their race or national origin is to direct it to stop: it is not to direct it intentionally discriminate against others on the basis of their race and national origin," elaborated Griesbach
Judge Griesbach has since suggested "race-neutral" programs that would help all farmers such as "requiring individual determinations of disadvantaged status or giving priority to loans of farmers and ranchers that were left out of previous pandemic relief funding."
Griesbach's order to halt the program is only temporary, as he feels that plaintiffs have a good case against the new policy. The plaintiffs in the case, 12 farmers from nine states, had filed suit against the USDA over the roughly $4 billion set aside for loan forgiveness for "socially disadvantaged" farmers and ranchers in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden in March.
The massive farmer relief bill of $4 billion would be spent from the President American Rescue Plan, which in total plans to spend $1.9 trillion.
The Biden Administration's original plan intended to offer loan forgiveness through the U.S. Department of Agriculture and would pay up to 120 percent of direct or guaranteed farm loan balances for African American, American Indian, Hispanic, Asian American, or Pacific Islander farmers.
