Trump ready to bail out farmers amid trade war squeeze, Rollins says [View all]

Source: Axios

6 hours ago


President Trump is prepared to bail out American farmers if the trade war continues squeezing commodity exports, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Sunday.

Why it matters: Exports of key commodities are plunging, particularly soybean and pork sales to China, threatening tens of billions of dollars in farm income.

What they're saying: "First of all, the prayer is that that doesn't need to happen — but secondly, if it does, for the short term, just as in Trump 1, we are preparing for that," Rollins told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.

Catch up quick: In Trump's first term, amid a smaller trade war with China, the government rolled out tens of billions of dollars in farm subsidies.

Those bailouts, collectively, ended up being so large that they almost equaled the tariff revenue generated.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/27/farm-tariffs-bailout-trump-china

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There is absolutely NOT ENOUGH money to do any "bailouts" of farmers. NOT when you now have a trade war that isn't just with China like the first term, but with most of the rest of the world... let alone needing to give more money to Muskrat and the rest of the billionaires by extending those tax cuts for them.