Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>Abandoned by <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, a farmer and a <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/migrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrant</span></a> search for a better future </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a></p><p>For this story, John Woodrow Cox interviewed more than 40 <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/farmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farmers</span></a> across the country. He and photographer Matt McClain reported from Colorado while Sarah Blaskey talked to more than two dozen employees at the U.S. Agriculture Department and reviewed hundreds of documents and records that revealed the extent of the cuts and freezes.<br>June 21, 2025 at 6:05 a.m. EDT </p><p>"The federal government had promised JJ a $200,000 grant, spread across two years, to cover the cost of a seasonal farmhand from Latin America. In a place where local, legal help was nearly impossible to keep, the extra worker would give him the freedom to handle more jobs and invest in his own equipment. It was an opportunity that could transform his family’s future, but, JJ explained to his friend, President <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> had frozen the money."</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/trump-farmers-grants-freeze-usda-migrants/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/investigati</span><span class="invisible">ons/interactive/2025/trump-farmers-grants-freeze-usda-migrants/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wapo.st/4liDorF" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wapo.st/4liDorF</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>