President Donald Trump plans to commemorate National Agriculture Day with a flurry of moves designed to cement his status as the “most pro-farmer president in history,” The White House’s Anna Kelly told the Washington Reporter.
The core of Trump’s pro-farmer agenda, Kelly told the Reporter, is his work “to lower input costs, open new trade markets, bolster the farm safety net, double the death tax exemption, end taxes on rural property loan interest, [and] create rural opportunity zones.”
Trump, Kelly said, represents a breath of fresh air for farmers after four years of President Joe Biden. “Unlike Joe Biden, who enabled sky-high inflation and allowed foreign nations to rip off our country, President Trump has farmers’ backs — and the best is yet to come.”
The farmers, in turn, will have Trump’s back at the event, which a White House official told the Reporter will take place on Friday, March 27. During the event, almost 1,000 farmers plan to stand alongside Trump, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and the CEOs of John Deere, Tractor Supply Co., and CNH Industrial on the White House’s South Lawn.
One item that is not currently slated to be on the agenda for the White House’s “celebration of agriculture” is an emphasis on the administration’s pending biofuels mandate.
“CBS falsely said that the event will focus on a specific policy area,” an official involved with the planning told the Reporter, contradicting a story in CBS News which claimed that “Trump [is] hosting big White House event around EPA’s biofuels mandates decision.”
“That’s fake news; this event will highlight all of President Trump’s successful policies to support our great farmers.”
