Emily Featherston, InvestigateTV
Secret Subsidies: Program meant to help farmers in trade war overspent, lacked transparency and compliance checks
The $23 billion in USDA program payouts set a precedent for spending without Congressional approval, experts say.
Secret Acres: Foreign-owned agricultural land inaccurately tracked by government
Federal law requires disclosure, but those records are incomplete.
Secret Subsidies: Payments to farms allowed to stretch far beyond rural America
Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are directed each year to the country’s farms to help keep agriculture afloat when times get tough. But the federal government is sending millions of these subsidy dollars in the names of people who live and work hundreds of miles from the farms that get the money.





