'Under the gun': Trump official admits time is running out to save farmers

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

October 16, 2025 6:46AM ET


“It’s easier to talk about than it is to do.” That is what one official close to Donald Trump had to say about devising a cash bailout for farmers who have been devastated by the president’s tariff war, which has many farmers on the brink of ruin.

According to a report from Politico’s Myah Ward and Grace Yarrow, the clock is ticking on the Trump administration to make good on the president’s promises to struggling farmers after he claimed his people would transfer tariff receipts to farmers to make up for their sales shortfalls after customers like China took their business elsewhere. Politico is reporting, “... the money hasn’t come, and time is running out before farmers have to make crucial decisions about next year’s planting season,” adding that the government shutdown has made the task even more difficult.

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) admitted that time is short and help is slow to come. “Farmers are hurting financially,” he explained. “They’re very troubled, there’s some expectation for help. Emotionally, it would be great for something to happen soon. But financially, they need to be able to go to their bankers and say that help is on the way.”

With White House spokesperson Anna Kelly saying in a statement, “No decisions have been made, but we look forward to sharing good news soon,” the Trump ally who claimed it’s easier to talk about than do, suggested there are roadblocks still ahead.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-farmers-2674204042/

[Prairie Gates]

1. You mean Trump can't wave his magic spending pen and send all the tariff money to the farmers?

Come on!

[raccoon]

2. Well, now, maybe he thinks he better bail out his Argentinian (Is that the word?) friend first.

[Hassler]

3. Don't fear, Chump will absolutely do something

In two weeks, or maybe 14 days.

[BigDemVoter]

4. Good.

Let that time run out quickly. They don't deserve any welfare/bailout. They voted for this fuckery. They just didn't know that THEY would be the ones getting fucked.

[patphil]

5. I doubt that the farmers will risk what little they have to plant huge crops next year.

Between the tariff war, and the loss of immigrant workers, they will need to see a shift in the administration that favors farmers instead of fucking them over.
Compensation is a pale replacement for the satisfaction of selling the fruits of all their hard work.
No one likes to see their hard work get plowed under.
Money will allow survival, but it won't substitute for the feeling of accomplishment that the harvest of their investment of money, and hard work gives them.

[BlueWavePsych]

6. Kick

[Firestorm49]

7. They really thought that they were going to get money?

When? I’m laughing my ass off only because they voted for the world’s greatest con-man.
Yes, they work very hard.
Yes, subsidies help.
But they voted knowingly against their own best interest and I can’t feel sorry for that.
I guess I’ll be paying more for meat and vegetables. MAGA many ass.

[yankee87]

8. Fuck them

A big FUCK YOU

[Blues Heron]

9. Trump fucked them and sent 20,000,000,000 dollars to their competition to protect his rich friends.

[travelingthrulife]

11. You would think this alone would wake these farmers up. He sent 20 billion,

or is it 40 billion now, to their COMPETITORS in the market.

[Blues Heron]

12. They are getting woke the hard way. Nothing worse than realizing you got conned

[Ray Bruns]

10. Fuck'em!

[slightlv]

13. I guess the military is more important to trump

than the farmers, eh? Wonder how the farmers felt when it was posted he (mis)appropriated Congress' money to pay the soldiers, but not them... oh, well... guess he's just not that into you, guys. Maybe you should vote differently next time... maybe spend a lot of time researching everyone running for office!

[BumRushDaShow]

14. He thinks they are "suckers and losers"

while he lets Kegsbreath go hog wild into insanity. I don't think he cares but it's the GOP legislators who are trying to use it as a tired and worn cudgel against Democrats, forgetting that for the past 20 or so years, there are MANY Vets who are (D)s who have also been elected to office, while the GOPers were out making money as lobbyists or vulture capitalists.

[slightlv]

15. I'm in Kansas, lots of farmers...

even got a freakin' email from Moran (one of our republican goons). Sure enough he was blaming it all democrats. Remember Moran? He's the good upstanding Xtian who went skinny dipping in the Pacific with a bunch of underage kids.

As soon as I replied to his office what I thought of the situation, and especially of his email, I raked them over the coals for subscribing me as a voter, assuming I'd be a damned republican because I live in farm country, KS. And then I unsubscribed.

Same with Roger Marshall. Man... if I don't have a slew of ne'er-do-wells! And I fight each and every election against them. But damn, they keep gerrymandering me into smaller and smaller areas and farther away from where I actually live. Not only are they deliberately diluting the Democratic vote, but their also diluting the senior vote... since most of us who've been gerrymandered from around my area are seniors. Isn't that just special? /snark

[BumRushDaShow]

16. I did see Moran mentioned in an article about Ukraine

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/u-sen-jerry-moran-kansas-201022231.html

So that is what he is doing to ignore everything else!