President Donald Trump said on 20 August that his administration will no longer approve additional wind farms or what he called "farmer-destroying" solar installations, describing the technologies as "the scam of the century" and blaming them for record electricity costs. The declaration came a day after Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins outlined plans to withdraw U.S. Department of Agriculture financing for large-scale renewable projects on farmland. Draft guidelines, reported by Reuters, would exclude ground-mounted solar arrays larger than 50 kilowatts from USDA loan and grant programmes unless producers can document their past electricity use, and would prohibit the use of panels manufactured by "foreign adversaries." While the department said smaller on-farm systems could still receive aid, the twin moves by the White House and USDA mark a significant reversal of federal support for wind and solar power, raising uncertainty for states and developers that have relied on federal backing to expand clean-energy capacity.