Trump already weighing multi-billion-dollar tariff bailout for US farmers

[In It to Win It]

The Trump administration is already considering bailing out farmers caught in the middle of the White House’s escalating trade war that’s now encompassing the rest of the world.

The administration is weighing a new batch of emergency aid to farmers as trading partners push back against U.S. tariffs with their own measures, The New York Times has reported. The last time Trump was in office, his administration spent $23 billion in subsidy payments to farmers to protect them from his trade war then with China, which purchased far fewer American agricultural products.

Such payments, as they did then, would now shield a vital voting base for Republicans.

China imposed retaliatory tariffs on soybeans, corn, wheat, and other imports in 2018, which resulted in the billions of dollars in aid to farmers. The money came from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has a fund to partially deal with emergencies such as disagreements over trade.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bailout-farmers-tariffs-b2726416.html

[jmbar2]

1. Here it comes... He backs off selectively and the stock market will surge again.

Pure market manipulation.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Creates the crisis, rescues someone, then he is a hero.

[C_U_L8R]

3. They wouldn't need a bailout

If Trump wasn't such a fuckup

[gab13by13]

6. It's not a fuck up

It's his plan to make money for himself.

[gab13by13]

4. Everything is going exactly according to his plan.

Giving the farmers and ranchers billions of dollars sends the message that if you kiss my ass, if you vote for me, I will take care of you.

He hopes countries across the world get that message for his tariffs.

[kacekwl]

5. Fuck them. Let them suffer

for their stupid decisions. If this happens I better never see a "farmer" in a maga hat again or I'll kick them in their eggs. Where's my bailout ?

[gab13by13]

7. Same place mine is.

[Solly Mack]

8. That'll save money.

Such payments, as they did then, would now shield a vital voting base for Republicans

I got mine!

[Wingus Dingus]

9. So instead of other countries buying their products, we are handing them taxpayer money

so they don't get mad at Daddy Krasnov. Fuck all these people.

[Johonny]

10. Wont those Doge checks be enough?

[surfered]

11. Why no bailout for American consumers?

[Blue Full Moon]

12. What about the rest of us

[Prairie Gates]

13. Farmers are lazy

They just want that government money.

[Jit423]

14. That is just going to turn folks against the farmers especially when they are told how much of a bail out they have been

receiving from all of Trump's disastrous economic policies.

[leftstreet]

15. "Farmers" also known as "Big Agriculture" n/t

[moondust]

16. That won't restore lost markets.

I understand that some of the markets for U.S. farm goods that were lost thanks to his first term tariffs have not returned and maybe never will.