Trump cancels Biden’s climate-agriculture partnership slush funds

Impacting a “slush fund” of roughly $3.1 billion, the USDA announced the end of a Biden-era farming grant program “largely built to advance the green new scam.”

Viewed by many as the unofficial third term of President Barack Obama, few were surprised to see President Joe Biden’s administration employ similar strategies — like picking winners and losers. Now, after the leftist bureaucracy cleared a path for future Solyndras, President Donald Trump’s administration continued to push back on “climate extremism” by canceling Department of Agriculture funding for 141 projects via the Partnerships Climate-Smart Commodities.

In an announcement Monday, the USDA explained that, “Following a thorough line-by-line review of each of these Biden era partnerships, it became clear that the majority of these projects had sky-high administration fees which in many instances provided less than half of the federal funding directly to farms.”

“The Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities initiative was largely built to advance the green new scam at the benefit of NGOs, not American farmers,” expressed Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in a statement on the cancellation of the $3.1 billion grant program.

“The concerns of farmers took a backseat during the Biden Administration. During my short time as Secretary, I have heard directly from our farmers that many of the USDA partnerships are overburdened by red tape, have ambiguous goals, and require complex reporting that push farmers onto the sidelines,” she added. “We are correcting these mistakes and redirecting our efforts to set our farmers up for an unprecedented era of prosperity.”

@SecRollins cancels Biden-era climate slush fund and reprioritizes existing funding to farmers. https://t.co/RkT6Yvpkru pic.twitter.com/5DyXqiyfqN

— Dept. of Agriculture (@USDA) April 14, 2025

Examples of PCSC projects included funding to “create market opportunities for beef and bison producers who utilize climate-smart agriculture grazing and land management practices” and financial incentives to “accelerate climate-smart practice uptake by farmers, leveraging private sector demand to strengthen markets for climate-smart commodities.”

In other words, the Biden administration was picking winners and losers and propping up ineffective agricultural practices under the asserted objective of cutting over 60 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.

That said, Rollins’ USDA hadn’t wholly ruled out allocating some of the authorized funds, as that announcement made clear that if a “significant amount” of the money was demonstrably going to farmers, “select projects” could continue.

“Additionally, we have reformed and overhauled the Biden-era [PCSC] initiative into the Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP) initiative, and the USDA has identified changes to align the initiative with current Trump Administration priorities,” added the release as no new funding would be steered toward the program while the Department of Government Efficiency continued efforts to reach $2 trillion in cuts from federal spending.

Upon Trump’s return to the White House, a slew of purportedly climate-focused executive orders from the Biden administration were rescinded in one of his first acts as the 47th president.

“Climate extremism has exploded inflation and overburdened businesses with regulation,” read Trump’s executive order in part as it called out Biden’s “deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government.”

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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