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In March 2025, Trump's USDA cancelled $300 million in land-access grants for American farmers — many of them farmers of color — and justified it with a list of "wasteful" purchases: a barbecue smoker, a gazebo, massages, and a $20,000 budget for ink pens. The 49 terminated grantees say those line items never existed. Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins cancelled roughly $1 billion more in local-food money the same month, leaving Pennsylvania farmer Dan Hunter and the food banks he supplied with crops already in the ground. Here's who actually paid for it — and why the USDA's own appeals office may have given the game away. Watch: https://t.co/ojd6eMe6ds