THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

And Americn farmers trying to recover from disasters, along with the Puerto Ricans that Donny wants to hurt, are suffering. Donny says the island got too much so the relief bill for more recent disasters is being held uo on Donny's orders because there is some more relief for the island.

Congress last passed a broad disaster relief package in February 2018, when lawmakers slipped nearly $90 billion into a wide-ranging spending agreement. In the year since, record-breaking natural disasters have ravaged the country: wildfires in California, hurricanes in Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas, and floods across Iowa, Nebraska and much of the rest of the Midwest.

But efforts to wrangle a relief package through Congress — typically a seamless feat of bipartisanship — have repeatedly failed, not because senators do not want to help people like Mr. Cohen, some of whom cannot yet reach their land, but because President Trump does not want to give more money to Puerto Rico.

Democrats are not giving up their effort to increase aid to the island, a United States territory devastated by hurricanes in 2017, as Democratic senators push to match what their House counterparts have already approved. But Senate Republicans, wary of challenging Mr. Trump, say they have acquiesced enough — and unlike the states covered in the package, Puerto Rico has already received some financial aid.

And even with some discussions among staff members over the recess, Congress’s return on Monday is unlikely to yield a quick resolution, leaving hundreds of farmers who have already been battered by Mr. Trump’s trade war and low commodity prices stranded during prime planting season.

“In a time of crisis, you’re supposed to let that kind of stuff go so you can run toward the fire with water and help,” said John K. Hansen, the president of the Nebraska Farmers Union. “We still have folks fighting over whether you should use a bucket.”

In interviews this past week, several farmers across the country said the debate hundreds of miles away in Washington had left them in limbo, wary of moving forward without the promise of federal aid. Outside their state governments, which have allocated money, and their delegations, the farmers said, few politicians understand the scope of the damage for their families and their communities.

And some worry that the less tangible consequences — their ability to provide food to the country, support their communities and maintain the legacy of agriculture for their children — will go unnoticed.

“There’s heritage in this stuff,” said Jeff Jorgenson, 43, a third-generation farmer, as he stood in front of one of the submerged corn fields he oversees in Fremont County, Iowa. “We have to take care of what came before us.”

“I hope I can have the next generation do this,” he said.

Even when aid packages reach the president’s desk, it often takes months for the money to make it to farmers. Some in Georgia who lost crops in the 2017 hurricane season did not start receiving money allocated in the February 2018 package until the end of that summer, before Hurricane Michael — making landfall as a Category 5 storm — swept away what many deemed to be a perfect crop of cotton and downed pecan trees days away from harvest.

“To say they’re dissatisfied is to say it very lightly,” said Gary W. Black, Georgia’s commissioner of agriculture. “I think it’s grossly unfair to them.”

Once again we see that loyalty is a one way street. Farmers were a key demographic for the Orange Humperdoo but when it comes time to give them some pay back? Well they can just kiss his saggy orange butt until they throw out the PR's.