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John Duarte: “The relief program was sent through the USDA, as is what…”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

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The 13th Congressional District w/ John Duarte

Published | Video Starts at 40:19

Even when we did the relief program, remember a couple years ago, we had the storms, the fires, the freeze. And there's a very large $450 million relief program nationwide to help help growers get through those times. Well, that The relief program was sent through the USDA, as is what happens in the secretary Vilsack's folks put so many DeI ESG advantages for one group of people to get money out of that program versus those who'd actually seen losses. that the program ended up doing very little to protect our food supply, did very little to help our actual food producers, and was more of a social engineering project … (40:19–40:55)

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Asserts that the USDA relief program was biased towards certain groups due to DEI and ESG criteria.

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