Texas ranchers have no intention of taking any handouts from the Biden administration after suffering the consequences of Biden’s border crisis. The Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, under its Environmental Quality Incentive Program, has started allowing farmers and ranchers to claim reimbursements for damaged property.

However, ranchers are skeptical that the money will come with strings attached if it even comes at all.

Newsmax reports:

“It looks good on paper. It looks good in the media,” rancher John Paul Schuster told the Examiner. “But in reality, it’s not servicing us right now.”

Five of six ranchers in Kinney and Val Verde counties contacted by the Examiner said they did not plan to apply for reimbursement.

“We don’t want anything from the government. There’s going to be strings attached,” Ann Hodge, who, with her husband, owns a multigenerational ranch in Del Rio, Texas, told the Examiner.

“You never know when they’re going to try and say they might need that money back now and have the power to take it away from us.”

Other ranchers expressed their doubt that they will see any of the money calling the program a political stunt. Some ranchers have complained they had no choice but to pay out of pocket to repair their damaged property over the last year but the government program only applies to unfixed repairs.