Trump Eyes '$10 Billion Bailout' For Farmers Hurt By Tariffs

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Oct 2nd, 2025, 4:01 pm


President Donald Trump is reportedly considering giving American farmers a $10 billion bailout as the industry continues to be hurt by tariffs.

According to a Thursday afternoon report from The Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is mulling over the idea of “using tariff revenue to fund much of the aid.” Farmers have seen a dramatic decrease in sales after China — amid its ongoing trade war with the United States — decided to all but end purchases of American soybeans.

The report continued:

A senior administration official said the discussions have centered on $10 billion to $14 billion in aid. The aid likely would go toward helping soybean producers, as well as other parts of the farm economy. The official stressed that the deliberations were ongoing and that nothing had been definitively settled. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump said earlier this week that he planned to push Chinese leader Xi Jinping to buy U.S. soybeans to help struggling American farmers. The two leaders are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of a summit in South Korea in the coming weeks. A deal with China to buy soybeans could change Trump’s calculation about providing aid to farmers, the official said.

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"Welfare".

[msongs]

1. welfare farmers grabbing that socialist cash taken from the wallets of blue state residents. and blaming China lol nt

[C_U_L8R]

2. What's the catch?

Nothing comes from Trump without expensive strings attached that line his pockets

[JoseBalow]

10. He wants their continued support after screwing them over with tariffs and bad policies

It's drumpf... it's a payoff.

[paleotn]

11. Farming isn't a one year gig.

10 billion X 4 until the end of this term. 10 billion X a whole lot as the market may take years to decades to win back. This is just stupidity from a jackass who doesn't know how anything works.

[tinrobot]

38. That $10B will probably go to large corporate farmers

Who donated bigly to his campaign.

Family farmers will get nothing.

[yardwork]

45. The family farms are being sold to Chinese corporations.

China will get this payout, paid with our money.

[CivicGrief]

3. Please, small farmers, take our handout.

Nevermind that we are making you obsolete.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Small famers are less able to navigate requirements and more likely to get bought out at bargain prices

Most of the money will go to million dollar farm operations and corporate farms.

[synni]

13. Small farmers will be raking in the cash

I knew a guy who inherited a farm, and never worked a day in his life. Inherited everything. He sat on his lazy behind, as the government paid him every year for some stupid reason or another. Of course, he was a Republican.

[MadameButterfly]

31. just like the Covid money went to wherever Trump

wanted it to go

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. tRump gave twice as much to Argentina so they could replace US soy in China markets with their own

The gift benefited a financier adjacent to the regime and enabled Argentina to lift its export tax on soy so Argentine farmers could replace US farmers.

[CentralMass]

48. Yes. $20 billion to Argentina while the dropped their export fees with China who ..

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subsequently bought 2.7 metric tons of soybeans from Argentina worth about $7 billion dollars while China has shut US soybeans imports out due to the Orange Anuses tariffs.

[IcyPeas]

6. Or $9 billion bailout.... coz he'll steal $1 billion... and who's counting?

[Autumn]

7. Hurt? Nonsense. Trump told us tariff money was pouring into our country.

Give then some of that money.

[MadameButterfly]

32. The OP says the subsidy will come out of tarriff money

But if you extend this approach to its logical conslusion, and subsidize everybody who is being hurt by tarriffs, I'm guessing you more than cancel out the income from the tarriffs.

Of course they won't. They'll only address groups big enough to lobby support, potential Trump voters in swing states.

[usonian]

8. The soybeans that China isn't buying from the US will be bought from Argentina.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220692991
^^^^^ details here. No need to wait until 11 ^^^^^^^

“ Trump's Argentina Bailout Sparks Fury Among Farmers, Republicans”

And we pay for both!!!

[MadameButterfly]

33. The 30 billion could have paid a lot of federal worker

salaries, green projects, USAID, things they said we can't afford

[usonian]

44. ARGENTINA FIRST. NT

[MadameButterfly]

49. Fascism first

[paleotn]

9. Welfare but really a small drop in the bucket.

Soybean exports to China were $13 billion per year just prior to the regime. All US ag exports to just China were $41 billion in 2022 alone. So it's a small drop in the bucket of what they've lost. And is he going to do the same thing every single year from here on out? If farmers have any sense at all, they'll see it as an insult. And many will STILL go bankrupt. China doesn't need Amurkin farmers. Plenty of ag products to found elsewhere. Brazil produces more soybeans than we do.

[ananda]

12. Where will this $10 billion in tariff revenue come from...

if the government is shut down?

[FakeNoose]

22. If the taxpayers stop paying taxes .... that's when the money stops rolling in

They haven't figured that part out yet ....

[MadameButterfly]

34. How does that happen?

They can give all the money from Blue states to Red states, and we still have to pay our taxes.

[Bengus81]

41. You don't when your laid off...which will be coming in the next year in mass

These fucked up tariffs will send the economy into the shitter faster than a Reagan tinkle down economy.

[bmichaelh]

14. Trump never learns

This is still less than his first term..

In 2018 Trump administration introduced $16 billion (~$19.1 billion in 2023) of new trade aid.[9][10] In 2019, the Donald Trump administration increased the bailout to $16 billion (~$18.8 billion in 2023).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_farmer_bailouts

Trump has the type of behavior that he does not learn from his past mistakes and they are plenty.

The Dunning-Kruger presidency.

[MadameButterfly]

35. This is a guy who is going around repeately claiming he has ended 7 wars

citing conflicts that happened before his presidency or not at all. He hasn't figured out that everybody, even his biggest supporters, know its preposterous. In the past his lies were aimed at his ignorant base. Now it appears he thinks it will work on the Nobel Prize committee.

He doesn't know how anything works, and it will never get better.

[RainCaster]

15. Xi won't give an inch to TSF

Trump is dreaming of he thinks he can get Xi Jinping to budge an inch. Trump has alienated China in a very big way. That will take a long time to heal.

[surfered]

16. So the American consumer pays the tariffs and also has to bailout Trump voters hurt by the tariffs

Got it!

[Orrex]

17. I wonder how many will line up to kiss his festering ass

The ones he's likely to bribe are the ones who'll take any excuse at all to vote Republican, no matter how badly Republicans fuck them.

[Skittles]

18. the same folk who scream about SOCIALISM will have their hands out

COUNT ON IT

[Prairie Gates]

19. They've literally been saying this same thing for four weeks

Do it or don't, fucko. What's with the months worth of "mulling?"

[Bengus81]

42. It will happen,he can't afford to have them not voting for Republicans in the mid-terms

[chicoescuela]

20. The beauty thing is he will just instruct Treasury to write checks as

he doesn’t need Congress to do anything.
Gotta love this country

[BidenRocks]

21. Chump Broke It!

Make Him Pay!

Audit his ass!

[LilElf70]

23. 10B? This is just a drop in a huge bucket.

10B for the farmers? Really. This is what "THE MAGATS" voted for, right?

And what a smart idea it was to post tariffs. No thought process at all behind this decision. It's a total financial disaster. Like bankrupting a casino.

If it's this bad now, imagine what the next 3 years will bring.

All the lies, deception, corrupt people and policies? It's all a con which fooled millions of people.

Will we ever see normalcy again? Whatever that is........

[Hope22]

25. Best prospect is one generation at a minimum to get back the rights taken.

My understanding is that a generation is considered 20 years. Sorry I don’t have a link but it was out here. Most of us don’t have 20 to give. Very sad and unbelievable!!

[Gimpyknee]

37. Sadly, I'm in agreement with you.

[Hope22]

24. Where does he get this money..

And what about the 20 billion to..was it Venezuela? Originally I thought the 20 was going to US farmers and I was still pissed because T and the tariffs intentionally broke the system. Next step will be the rest of our farmland bought up by mega farming be in US or foreign buyers. Such a disgrace!

[kacekwl]

26. Thank god trump

doesn't have the power of the purse. Oh wait the Republican Congress shoved that into trumps dirty diaper like a strippers g string.

[LyfeTimeDem]

27. here we go again

[SamKnause]

28. He isn't giving them 1 red cent.

He is giving them our money.

The money we pay in taxes.

The money we pay because of his tariffs.

[Champp]

29. Republicans are screwing taxpayers twice with this hustle

You would think even a few magas might get a clue here. Hello? This is your wallet getting a Double Republican Tariff-Tax Butt Ream.

[SamKnause]

30. Magas will never get a clue.

They can't distinguish between truth or lies or fact or fiction.

They follow the cult mentality, ask no questions.

They get all their information from the cult podcasts and rightwing media.

It is alarming how little they understand about the majority of topics.

The majority are Christian Nationalists and they believe in taking control by the sword.

They have destroyed this country.

[Javaman]

36. and how much of that will go into his own pocket? probably most of it. nt

[twodogsbarking]

39. Well

[JT45242]

40. Which megadonors own soybean farming companies?

So, the rest of us are paying higher taxes in tariffs so that we can welfare money to large corporate farms and shills like Chuck Grassley.

According to the interwebs
"Although farms smaller than 250 acres are the most numerous for soybean production, they account for less than 18% of the total 2022 crop."

The trick that Rethugs love to play with is that technically many megafarms are "family farms" in that they are owned by a family and not a bunch of stockholders. We'll use old Chuck Grassley as an example -- his "family farm" (which swallowed up a lot of smaller farms around the original farm has approximately 750 acres.

His farm had received at least $370L in subsides by 2017. It got another $40K in PPP forgiveness. And more undisclosed money during and after Covid.

I'm certain Chuckles and other rethug congress critters will be at the front of the line for handouts.

[travelingthrulife]

47. Bessent owns millions of dollars worth of soybean cropland in one of the Dakotas.

He rents it out to soybean farmers. He will likely make a killing again and he is directly involved in setting up this tariff fiasco.

[Bengus81]

43. $10B?? Oh please...that's the same BS game he played in his first term when subsidies

were announced. By 2020 Trump had paid them around $32 BILLION. This time will be no different. Start small and keep adding and adding.

[travelingthrulife]

46. Welfare Queens. This free public money is why they vote Republican.