Well here's something all those right leaning wing nuts should go crazy about!
I can't imagine they would though, after all it's only a multi-billion dollar government bail out of mostly Republican farmers who supported Trump and his ill advised trade negotiations. The United States has, and continues to isolate itself from its friends (or should that be phrased "ex-friends) each and every day with it's Trumpian Actions and Policies! Where the hell are those Republicans who screamed all during the Obama years about "His leading from behind!" They yelled it every second of every day an opportunity would lend itself, even if at times it was to an audience of "one"! The Republicans can't find money to ensure every citizen has access to medical care because that's "socialism!", however to find money to support a policy gone amuck and financial negatively affect their farming base, "NO PROBLEM!" .... you just press this button on this key board here .... simple, eh!
Such hypocrites!
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Bailout checks begin arriving for farmers, as Trump’s trade war escalates
Wheat harvest is in full swing near Paterson, Wash. Some wheat producers have submitted applications for money from the government under a bailout program authorized by the Trump administration. (Paul T. Erickson/Tri-City Herald/AP)
September 21 at 2:29 PM
The federal government has given $25.8 million to farmers this month under a program designed to help them weather President Trump’s international trade battle, a spokesman for the Agriculture Department said Friday.
The money represents some of the first payments of what the Trump administration said will eventually be a
$12 billion bailout, which aims to help farmers cope with retaliatory tariffs foreign countries have imposed on their products. Those retaliatory tariffs have dimmed demand for U.S. products overseas and resulted in a domestic supply glut that has deflated some prices at home.
From Sept. 4 through Thursday, the USDA received 39,447 applications for aid. The department has approved 7,851 applications so far, the USDA official said.
The administration has planned an initial $4.7 billion in payments for producers of commodities such as corn, cotton, dairy products, pork, sorghum, soybeans and wheat.
The program will give aid to farmers based on a formula that accounts for the “severity of the trade disruption” — essentially, an estimate of how much money the trade war is costing them — as well as the volume of their production, the USDA said in
announcing the program.
Farmers can apply for the assistance only after their harvests are complete, so the money has likely gone primarily to producers of wheat, dairy and livestock, a USDA spokesman said in an email. The USDA said it could not disclose which farmers have received assistance under the program.
“Because of privacy concerns, we will not release the identity of individual recipients,” a spokesman said in an email.
(you can read the entire article on this link)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...s-trade-war-escalates/?utm_term=.0904b8d4f163
Chris Riotta,The Independent 
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