MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed this week that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court in Wisconsin on behalf of a white dairy farmer, Adam Faust.

The lawsuit alleges the government has continued to implement diversity, equity and inclusion programs that were instituted under former President Joe Biden.

The lawsuit contends that Faust is one of 2 million white male farmers who are subject to discriminatory race-based policies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The lawsuit names three USDA programs and policies it says put white men at a disadvantage and violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal treatment by discriminating based on race and sex.

Faust participates in one program designed to offset the gap between milk prices and the cost of feed, but the lawsuit alleges he is charged a $100 administrative fee that minority and female farmers do not have to pay.

Faust also participates in a USDA program that guarantees 90 percent of the value of loans to white farmers, but 95 percent to women and racial minorities. That puts Faust at a disadvantage, the lawsuit alleges.

Faust also has begun work on a new manure storage system that could qualify for reimbursement under a USDA environmental conservation program, but 75 percent of his costs are eligible while 90 percent of the costs of minority farmers qualify, the lawsuit contends.

A federal court judge ruled in a similar 2021 case that granting loan forgiveness only to “socially disadvantaged farmers” amounts to unconstitutional race discrimination. The Biden administration suspended the program and Congress repealed it in 2022.

The Wisconsin Institute has filed dozens of such lawsuits in 25 states attacking DEI programs in government.