U.S. farmers receive $7.7 billion in trade aid to date: USDA

[douglas9]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Department of Agriculture has paid out $7.7 billion so far to farmers, William Northey, Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation, said on Friday, in aid designed to offset the negative impact of tariff imposition.

The administration of President Donald Trump has pledged up to $12 billion in aid to help offset losses for crops hit by retaliatory Chinese tariffs imposed in response to Washington’s tariffs on Chinese goods.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-farmaid/u-s-farmers-receive-7-7-billion-in-trade-aid-to-date-usda-idUSKCN1QB1KM?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

[Achilleaze]

1. republicans using our hard-earned tax dollars to bribe farmers

after the republican Trade Wars have devastated farm country.

Sick.

It is such a vile lie when republicans call themselves "conservatives." This is a total ripoff of taxpayers so KGOP republicans can bribe hurting farmers to keep on voting against their own interests by supported the compromised & criminal KGOP republican, Inc. juggernaut to HELL.

[Cartoonist]

2. That's Socialism

Or something like that.

[gratuitous]

3. Didn't Trump say that China was paying all those tariffs?

Someone has their information badly - and I mean badly - wrong. Who's paying those tariffs if it isn't our foreign trading partners? Why does the Department of Agriculture have to offset the negative impact of tariffs if foreign countries are paying those tariffs, like Trump said they are?

Oh well, I guess we'll never ever know the truth.

[old guy]

4. Welfare queens?

[Brawndo]

5. Insulating them from the consequences of their own stupidity

This way they wont have to learn a thing.