{"id":1055774,"date":"2025-08-29T13:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055774"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:58:46","slug":"angry-farmer-rips-into-missouri-republican-for-co-signing-trumps-agricultural-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/angry-farmer-rips-into-missouri-republican-for-co-signing-trumps-agricultural-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Farmer Rips into Missouri Republican for Co-Signing Trump\u2019s Agricultural Nightmare\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response to GOP Rep. Mark Alford\u2019s own constituents turning against him during a town hall, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Deputy Communications Director Abhi Rahman released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump and his Republican bootlickers like Rep. Mark Alford are championing a disastrous economic agenda that uproots the lives of small farmers and plunges them into a financial crisis. Family farmers are forced to sacrifice their farms just to put a meal on the table and keep a roof over their heads \u2014 and for what? To line the pockets of Trump\u2019s billionaire donors. While Trump plays chaotic trade war games at the expense of our farmers\u2019 livelihoods, Alford and the rest of Trump\u2019s lapdogs are too chicken to call him out and stand up for the people who sent them to Washington in the first place. Make no mistake: come Election Day, congressional Republicans will learn the hard way that playing stupid games wins stupid prizes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>During a town hall event, Missouri GOP Rep. Mark Alford was confronted by an angry constituent who blamed the congressman for supporting Trump\u2019s reckless economic policies that devastated Missouri farmers like him.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ofthebraveusa\/status\/1960803163721916701\">Home of the Brave on X<\/a>: \u201cA soybean farmer lights up Rep. Mark Alford for supporting Trump\u2019s tariffs which have devastated farmers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c\u2018What do you tell farmers who are losing their farms because there&#8217;s no market for them anymore? What do you say to them?\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/199594\/take-head-out-trump-ass-republican-town-hall-alford\">New Republic<\/a>: \u201cRepublican Town Hall Erupts: \u2018Take Your Head Out of Trump\u2019s Ass!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018I am pissed, and I\u2019m pissed at you, because I have emailed you because it\u2019s easier for me than to try to talk on the phone without profanity,\u2019 said Fred Higginbotham, a longtime Polk County resident who said he was at risk of losing his family farm. \u2018I would appreciate you taking your father\u2019s U.S. Constitution book, read it, study it, make your own lines underneath it, and get Trump out of office. The man is a dictator.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cHigginbotham went on to tell Alford that he may lose his family farm because of state and federal disdain for farmers and bias towards the wealthy.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018You wanna straighten out the budget? Start taxing corporations and the wealthy like we\u2019ve been telling you. Do you think we\u2019re idiots? Do you think we don\u2019t pay taxes? Do you think that we don\u2019t have to make budgets? \u2026 You know nothing about what a working-class citizen does. Come down here \u2026 and start trying to pay your medical insurance&#8230;. You need to take your head out of Trump\u2019s ass and start doing your representation of us!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to GOP Rep. Mark Alford\u2019s own constituents turning against him during a town hall, DNC Deputy Communications Director Abhi Rahman released the following statement:&nbsp; \u201cDonald Trump and his Republican bootlickers like Rep. Mark Alford are championing a disastrous economic agenda that uproots the lives of small farmers and plunges them into a financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Angry Farmer Rips into Missouri Republican for Co-Signing Trump\u2019s Agricultural Nightmare\u00a0\u00a0 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/angry-farmer-rips-into-missouri-republican-for-co-signing-trumps-agricultural-nightmare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-29T17:58:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-29T17:58:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/angry-farmer-rips-into-missouri-republican-for-co-signing-trumps-agricultural-nightmare\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/angry-farmer-rips-into-missouri-republican-for-co-signing-trumps-agricultural-nightmare\/\",\"name\":\"Angry Farmer Rips into Missouri Republican for Co-Signing Trump\u2019s Agricultural Nightmare\u00a0\u00a0 - 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