Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies surged 46% in 2025 — a third consecutive annual increase — with the Midwest leading the collapse at 70% higher than the year before. Behind the data is a deliberate policy landscape of tariff warfare, agency demolition, and willful neglect that reveals not a governing president, but a wrecking ball with a MAGA hat.
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April’s Producer Price Index posted its largest annual jump in nearly four years. Real wages went negative. The president said he doesn’t “think about” Americans’ finances. And in the same week, his party tried to slip $1 billion in taxpayer money toward his White House ballroom.
When the United Arab Emirates announced it was quitting OPEC on the same week that gas prices hit a four-year national high and more than seventy lawmakers called for the President’s removal, something more than an energy market story was being written. It was a portrait of a presidency in collapse — and an American family at the pump, paying the bill.
