Ted Frazier
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Donald Trump gave subsidies to farmers in order to compensate for their losses as a result of the trade war with China, but it hasn’t been enough. The dairy farmers want more.
A $12 Billion Program to Help Farmers Stung by Trump’s Trade War Has Aided Few
The dairy industry has been particularly critical of the program and, in a letter to Mr. Perdue, asked the administration to rethink how it calculates subsidies and to make them more generous to dairy farmers. The milk federation expects dairy farmers to lose $1.5 billion from the tariffs in the second half of this year and it has received only $127 million in aid.
A $12 Billion Program to Help Farmers Stung by Trump’s Trade War Has Aided Few