Trump’s Bailout Plan: Too Little, Too Late The American farmer—once the backbone of our economy—is now being bailed out by the very tariffs that helped drive his market into the ground. Last week, President Trump unveiled plans to redirect tariff revenue as emergency aid for struggling U.S. farmers, now squeezed between a collapsing export market and a global supply chain realignment that leaves them out in the cold. At the heart of the crisis? China’s decisive and permanent shift to sourcing soybeans from Brazil, not America. "We're going to take some of that tariff money… and give it to our farmers," Trump said Thursday. A bold statement, but a reactive one—because the damage is already well underway. China, once the…
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