The information in the complete Reuters article evidences the criminality of the Repub-Dem stranglehold on representative government. Huge portions of the subsidy are essentially wealth-welfare to agri-businesses, while many small farmers who warrant help to survive the drought are not helped at all.
But let's not lose sight of the fact that the overwhelming majority of the senators and congressmen of both parties are the 1%, and they themselves do not suffer consequences for the partisan insanity. It's the 99% who are in their stranglehold. At the current rate of wealth transfer and non-address of climate change, the children of today's 99% will know a world where the threat of predation of their children by cannibals will be common. It can see it now: Repubs will stand for increased police protection in wealthy neighborhoods, and Dems will press for more jobs for police, AND artificial limbs for the uninsured who lose a leg to cannibals.
They'll strike a deal the day before the law against cannibalism is set to expire.