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Trump putting taxpayers on the hook to save his favorite constituency: conservative
Tariffs First, Bailouts Later: The Rural Cost of Trump’s Policy TheaterThe SetupTrump is weighing an aid package for farmers that could reach $17.3 billion, while Republican lawmakers line up behind the rescue. The immediate context is simple enough: farmers are struggling, tariffs have damaged exports, and the administration is now considering federal relief for the damage its own trade policy helped create.Who Actually Holds PowerThe people with power here are not the farmers. They are the president and the party that designed, defended, and can now finance the fallout. Trump imposed the…
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