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Reports from the [[United Nations]] and the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) in 2007 criticized the United States and other developed nations for their continued farm trade subsidies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics2_oct19_2007 |title=Manila Standard Today |publisher=manilastandardtoday.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201191549/http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics2_oct19_2007 |archive-date=December 1, 2007 }}</ref> Such subsidies, according to the reports, prevent fair competition from developing nations.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020100375.html?nav=rss_business/international|title= WashingtonPost.com | newspaper=The Washington Post | first=Jeremy|last=Smith|date=February 1, 2007}}</ref> Because of its continued refusal to conform to WTO guidelines, the United States was the target of up to $4 billion of potential trade sanctions by [[Brazil]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a5mZJM5fMVGg&refer=latin_america |title= Bloomberg.com | date=October 16, 2007}}</ref>
Reports from the [[United Nations]] and the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) in 2007 criticized the United States and other developed nations for their continued farm trade subsidies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics2_oct19_2007 |title=Manila Standard Today |publisher=manilastandardtoday.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201191549/http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics2_oct19_2007 |archive-date=December 1, 2007 }}</ref> Such subsidies, according to the reports, prevent fair competition from developing nations.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020100375.html?nav=rss_business/international|title= WashingtonPost.com | newspaper=The Washington Post | first=Jeremy|last=Smith|date=February 1, 2007}}</ref> Because of its continued refusal to conform to WTO guidelines, the United States was the target of up to $4 billion of potential trade sanctions by [[Brazil]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a5mZJM5fMVGg&refer=latin_america |title= Bloomberg.com | date=October 16, 2007}}</ref>


President [[George W. Bush]] also expressed opposition to the bill, and vetoed it because of its high cost and negative impact on poorer farmers; his veto threat enabled numerous Republican congressmen to attach [[pork barrel spending|pork]] to it, making the bill more expensive than it would have been otherwise, since Democratic leaders needed Republican votes to override the veto.<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-farmbill6nov06,1,1661766.story?coll=la-headlines-nation LA Times, November 6, 2007], latimes.com</ref> Bush claimed that it was too generous for already wealthy farmers who did not truly need the extra financial assistance.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Writer |first=MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press |title=Farm bill faces more opposition |url=https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/farm-bill-faces-more-opposition/article_ae039092-2f85-5c97-a5c5-7753149c9da4.html |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Bismarck Tribune |language=en}}</ref> Others argued that the bill should include more subsidies for renewable energy. In negotiations between Congressional legislators and the White House, Bush indicated that the cap on payments to anyone making over $750,000 per year was still too high, and that if the cap were lowered to anyone making over $200,000, he would support the bill.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008May07/0,4670,FarmBill,00.html Farm bill negotiators say they have agreement], foxnews.com</ref>
President George W. Bush also expressed opposition to the bill, and vetoed it because of its high cost and negative impact on poorer farmers; his veto threat enabled numerous Republican congressmen to attach [[pork barrel spending|pork]] to it, making the bill more expensive than it would have been otherwise, since Democratic leaders needed Republican votes to override the veto.<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-farmbill6nov06,1,1661766.story?coll=la-headlines-nation LA Times, November 6, 2007], latimes.com</ref> Bush claimed that it was too generous for already wealthy farmers who did not truly need the extra financial assistance.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Writer |first=MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press |title=Farm bill faces more opposition |url=https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/farm-bill-faces-more-opposition/article_ae039092-2f85-5c97-a5c5-7753149c9da4.html |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Bismarck Tribune |language=en}}</ref> Others argued that the bill should include more subsidies for renewable energy. In negotiations between Congressional legislators and the White House, Bush indicated that the cap on payments to anyone making over $750,000 per year was still too high, and that if the cap were lowered to anyone making over $200,000, he would support the bill.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008May07/0,4670,FarmBill,00.html Farm bill negotiators say they have agreement], foxnews.com</ref>


Food experts, international aid groups, and the [[White House]] suggested that the bill did not focus enough on the globally growing food crisis around the world. Some of the money could have been used to feed poor children who were suffering in other countries but instead farmers in the United States, whom the bill was supposedly designed to assist, were largely flourishing. Only about one percent of the bill's total cost was sent abroad to provide a relatively small amount of food relief to those in need. International aid groups criticized farm bills in the United States for ignoring poor farmers in developing countries by causing them to compete with wealthy, taxpaying American farmers. Billions of dollars in [[subsidy|subsidies]] were distributed to these farmers no matter how much they grow, the groups said, and [[legislator|lawmakers]] failed to help the people in need.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Writer |first=MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press |title=Farm bill faces more opposition |url=https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/farm-bill-faces-more-opposition/article_ae039092-2f85-5c97-a5c5-7753149c9da4.html |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Bismarck Tribune |language=en}}</ref>
Food experts, international aid groups, and the [[White House]] suggested that the bill did not focus enough on the globally growing food crisis around the world. Some of the money could have been used to feed poor children who were suffering in other countries but instead farmers in the United States, whom the bill was supposedly designed to assist, were largely flourishing. Only about one percent of the bill's total cost was sent abroad to provide a relatively small amount of food relief to those in need. International aid groups criticized farm bills in the United States for ignoring poor farmers in developing countries by causing them to compete with wealthy, taxpaying American farmers. Billions of dollars in [[subsidy|subsidies]] were distributed to these farmers no matter how much they grow, the groups said, and [[legislator|lawmakers]] failed to help the people in need.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Writer |first=MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press |title=Farm bill faces more opposition |url=https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/farm-bill-faces-more-opposition/article_ae039092-2f85-5c97-a5c5-7753149c9da4.html |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Bismarck Tribune |language=en}}</ref>
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