Over the past 100 days [of President Trump’s second term], President Trump and his collaborators have taken a sledgehammer to the federal government and the U.S. scientific enterprise. Their sweeping actions are not about reform or improvement—they are about dismantling the institutions, expertise, and public safeguards that uphold democracy, protect health and the environment, and ensure that America’s farmers, workers, and communities can thrive fairly and securely.
The Trump administration’s so-called return to “free markets” is not just a rollback to the pre-Biden status quo; it’s an aggressive acceleration toward even deeper consolidation, climate vulnerability, and racial inequity. Truly competitive markets, meanwhile, are pushed farther away, for example, when Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins fast-tracked commodity subsidies and promised USDA bailouts to cushion tariff losses.
One of the most destructive acts is the dismantling of equity initiatives. The USDA removed the mechanism for reporting discrimination and froze crucial programs that assist … underserved farmers in accessing farmland.
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