Government and Politics
October 17, 2024
MADISON, Wis. — Around the bend of Van Orden memory lane, another fright lies in wait: the dead-on-arrival Farm Bill. Derrick Van Orden is screwing the family farms he claims to represent and leaving children to starve—just so he can bend over for Donald Trump and his rich buddies.
The Republican Farm Bill Derrick Van Orden supports would cut nearly $30 billion in SNAP benefits and fund programs that consolidate the dairy industry—changes that fast-track the death of family dairy farms in western Wisconsin.
Van Orden plays at being a fence-fixing cowboy to western Wisconsinites’ faces and then flies back to Washington to sell out their family farms to the big agribusinesses that fund his campaign. Derrick Van Orden is all hat and no cattle—the everyman’s DC sellout, too busy puffing his chest to cover up his greedy gut.
Here’s a reminder of Derrick Van Orden’s sour milk Farm Bill: