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Posted on 10/03/2025 9:54:11 AM PDT by DFG
The Trump administration is planning to roll out the first tranche of bailout payments for farmers in the coming weeks, likely using billions of dollars in funding from an internal USDA account, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter.
But it won’t be enough: USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation fund — which President Donald Trump previously tapped to provide $28 billion in farm aid during his first-term trade war with China — has just $4 billion left in the account. Trump officials, including those at the Treasury Department, are looking at how to tap tariff receipts or other funding to supplement the payments without triggering a messy fight in Congress.
The timing of the actual aid rollout is also tricky given that it’s unlikely to happen or even be possible during the ongoing government shutdown that’s shuttered vast swaths of the Agriculture Department.
Trump officials are still working on estimates of how big the first tranche of aid will be, according to the three people, who were granted anonymity to share private details. But the president has been posting his promises to aid American soybean farmers on social media in recent days.
Hill Republicans have been pushing Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and other Trump officials for weeks to do something to aid farmers reeling from high input costs and the president’s tariffs, which have cut off American soybean farmers’ key markets in China as Beijing retaliates.
Trump has said he would use tariff revenue to provide cash bailouts to farmers, but Congress would likely need to vote to authorize such a move, triggering a major fight between Republicans and Democrats amid already dire government spending conversations.
GOP lawmakers could also move to refill the internal USDA fund in their government funding fight later this fall, but that too will be a battle with Democrats.
Hill Republicans have been quietly working on their own proposal to find additional funding for the farm bailouts, according to four other people with direct knowledge of the matter. Some Republicans estimate they will eventually need to provide $35 billion to $50 billion in aid to farmers hit by Trump’s tariffs.
Trump is a nationalist.
The slogan America First tells the world he will never be ashamed nor put on the defensive for that nationalism.
Trump is attempting to KEEP American agriculture American.
As with all things economic, things are complicated and solutions are often imperfect and flawed.
But I voted for a fighter and I got what I voted for.
Trump will fight for this nation on EVERY war front, whether it be business, trade, drug cartels, terrorists or whatever or whoever attacks us.
Farmers aren’t always wise and virtuous. They get into foolish debt at times. We should not bail all of them out.
If it’s from political you know it must be true! Because they know his plans
And now we have to bail out farmers because China stopped buying our product .
Yet I live on a fixed income...
Should I simply starve?
Or file for bankruptcy?
My medical insurance has more than doubled!!
Everything is doubled, yet my income stays the same.
Perhaps, at 67 years old, I should put on a gas mask and go back into the mines....
Don't you have medicare?
Democrats won’t go for it because it benefits America and doesn’t favor foreign invaders who are hell bent on destroying the country that put them in power.
Billionaires and corporations and foreign governments whose allegiances are to none should not be allowed near America’s food supply. We all know who they are.
Everything should be done for the American family farms and ranches, as if our very lives and the security of our Republic depends on them. Because we do!
Disagree.
Same question. Age 66 here. Medicare covers alot.
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If true that would be better than spending billions on healthcare for illegals.
I saw some line yesterday from the American farmer’s association or some such outfit saying that the Trump cuts will disrupt cash flows for farmers. Hmmmm. I thought farmers were supposed to generate their own cash flow.
I have not, in the last 60 years ever heard a farmer that was not complaining about not making enough money. Yet many drive new trucks, have nice homes and new looking equipment that costs a fortune. They way they complain, live and act you would think they were doctors or something.
I would not say this if I did not more than one or two prosperous farmers. Maybe it is all oil and gas royalty money and farming is just a hobby.
My FIL was a farmer and he did fine with zero oil and gas royalties.
The point is the “China Trade War” was started by China, not Trump.
Trump merely responded to predatory behavior that had been left unmet for years.
So they aren’t “Trump’s Tariffs” as if it was some unilateral move against the poor, poverty stricken Chinese.
We have had a comprehensive Farm Program since the 1930’s essentially supporting farmers. There hasn’t been a total free farm market for over 85 years.
No we started the trade war and now will pay the consequences for it. Trump has tried to bully in foreign policy and it has all backfired on him.
The world is pivoting to a Multipolar world and we are being left behind because of Trump’s erratic and chaotic trade policies.
The Democrats will probably take the House next year and that will be the end of anything Trump wants to do. Total Gridlock.
Things are tough right now for agriculture .
Talk that loans won’t be renewed .
Not bring alarmist and no I don’t farm.
But this is what I’m hearing from people who know .
You and your ilk are so full of crap. Ignoring for years that countries have taken advantage of our great nation and our blood. It is because of feckless weak trolls like you which are cannon fodder and useless idiots for the communist left that they feel embolden. You can shove your sanctimonious attitude because down deep you think America is too powerful, has too much influence, should be taken down a step or two while letting third worlds S* holes run the left's policies.
Next comes the cries of socialism…..
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