“美国农民排在最后”：牧场主把特朗普的口号原样回敬给他
要点速览
- •John Boyd Jr.，全美黑人农民协会主席，批评特朗普的牛肉进口计划是一个把美国农民排在最后的“raw deal”。
- •据 NewsNation 报道，该提案将允许 300,000 metric tons 的牛肉在未来 90 天内以低于市场价值 25 percent 的价格进口和销售，且不会触发“out of quota”关税。
- •包括内布拉斯加州参议员 Deb Fischer 和艾奥瓦州众议员 Ashley Hinson 在内的共和党议员也反对该计划。
- •Boyd 认为进口牛肉来源不明，消费者也不能保证在超市获得更低价格，而且该政策主要有利于肉类加工商。
- •Boyd 建议将特朗普在阿根廷投入的 40 billion dollars 转而投资美国农民。
全美黑人农民协会创始人兼主席 John Boyd Jr. 周一批评特朗普总统进口外国牛肉的计划，称政府未能“put America first.” 在共和党议员也对该提案提出反对后，Boyd 接受了 MS Now 的 Katy Tur 采访。根据 NewsNation 的报道，该提案“will allow 300,000 metric tons of beef to be imported and sold 25 percent below market value for the next 90 days without activating an ‘out of quota’ tariff.”
正如 Tur 所指出的，共和党人一直在反对这项计划，其中包括内布拉斯加州参议员 Deb Fischer（共和党），她表示，“flooding the market with foreign beef hurts our livestock industry.” Tur 还说，正在艾奥瓦州竞选参议员、并获得特朗普背书的众议员 Ashley Hinson 也反对该计划，并“called it a bad idea.” 这场批评反映出牛肉政策对牧场主和农业州议员而言有多敏感，因为进口决定很快就会成为联邦政策究竟是在帮助本土生产者，还是在给他们施加更多压力的检验。
Boyd 将这一举动形容为 president 的“raw deal.” 他表示，特朗普一再声称支持农民和养牛户，但牛肉进口计划与这些说法背道而驰。
“... here’s the president who keep making the announcement that he he loves farmers, he loves cattlemen, and then undermines us with 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef that we don’t even know where it’s coming from,” Boyd said. “... So it’s bad beef that’s coming into the United States. The president hasn’t told anybody where the beef is coming from. There’s no guarantee that the American people are going to going to see any savings in the local grocery stores. This is more about helping meat packers, in my opinion. So he put the American farmers last.”
Boyd 补充说，这项政策可能对美国农民产生更广泛的影响。
“Here you have a president who continues to say he loves farmers,” Boyd said. “He loves the American people. This is what they want. It’s not what we want. ... So here you have a ripple effect, in my opinion, for the first time in history for America’s farmers going out, losing our farms every day, and the president makes another sour deal and punches the American farmers in the face.”
在被问及特朗普可以做些什么来帮助农民时，Boyd 建议将特朗普在阿根廷投入的资金重新调回美国。
“Take that money that he’s invested in Argentina, that $40 billion he invested in Argentina ... invest that money right here in American farmers, right here in the United States,” Boyd said.
“He’s always saying, ‘America first,’” Boyd continued. “Put America first, put America, put your money where your mouth is and invest in cattle farmers right now. And he can do that today.”
