RFK Jr. says he would give black farmers $5B in reparations — despite ruling that it’s unconstitutional

“Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he will support giving black farmers $5 billion in reparations once in office — throwing his weight behind a provision in President Biden’s American Rescue Plan that was struck down by a court as unconstitutional.”

“Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 proposed a loan assistance program of roughly $5 billion for ‘socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers’…The provision was quickly challenged by white farmers in Texas…One of the parties involved in the lawsuit at the time, America First Legal, sounded off Monday on Kennedy’s support for the $5 billion package. ‘Any public official who thinks it is the government’s role to pick winners and losers based on the color their skin does not belong in public office,’ AFL Executive Director and General Counsel Gene Hamilton told The Post.”

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