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.