WASHINGTON, D.C. (WRN) — The Trump administration walks back cuts to a dairy funding program.
Dairy farmers and processors in Wisconsin and across the US will receive promised reimbursements under the Dairy Business Innovation Initiative grant program. The funding held up by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been released after intervention by groups including the Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association, which called on members of Congress to release the funds they’d voted to approve.
According to a release from the office of 3rd District Congressman Derrick Van Orden the funding was released by the USDA Friday afternoon. The pause to the program, which helps businesses use targeted grants to grow and develop new products, had caused uncertainty to 420 grant applicants.
