The following article by Aaron Blake was posed on the Washington Post website July 24, 2018:
Back in April, President Trump shrugged off the pain his tariffs could cause American farmers. “We’ll make it up to them,” he said. “The farmers will be better off than they ever were. It will take a little while to get there, but it could be very quick, actually.”
Not quick enough, apparently.
The White House is set to announce what is essentially a $12 billion bailout for farmers who have been hurt by his escalating trade war, The Washington Post’s Damian Paletta reports: