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Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration claiming discrimination against white farmers

Patrick G Manning

MADISON, WI (AP)— A Wisconsin dairy farmer has alleged in a federal lawsuit that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities.

The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court on behalf of white dairy farmer, Adam Faust. The lawsuit alleges that the government continues to implement diversity, equity and inclusion programs that were instituted under former President Joe Biden.

Faust was among several farmers who successfully sued the Biden administration in 2021 for race discrimination in a USDA program.

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