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BumRushDaShow

(168,677 posts)
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 07:18 AM Dec 2025

Trump to Unveil $12 Billion in Long-Awaited Farm Aid Program

Source: Bloomberg

December 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM EST
Updated on December 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM EST


The Trump administration on Monday plans to unveil a long-awaited farm aid package, according to a White House official, offering $12 billion in assistance to a key base of support hit hard by low crop prices and the impact of the president’s tariff policies.

The aid will include up to $11 billion in one-time payments to crop farmers under the Department of Agriculture’s newly designed Farmer Bridge Assistance program, while the remaining is reserved for crops not covered under the FBA, according to the official, who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public.

The aid comes amid rising frustration among farmers on the slow pace of Chinese purchases, which Beijing clamped down on earlier this year in retaliation for Trump’s escalating tariff barrage.

President Donald Trump plans to announce the package around 2 p.m. in Washington during an event with corn, cotton, sorghum, soybean, rice, cattle, wheat and potato farmers, alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, according to the official.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/trump-set-to-unveil-12-billion-aid-for-farmers-hit-by-trade-war?srnd=homepage-americas



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Should be a hard NO unless the ACA extension is included on some bill.
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Trump to Unveil $12 Billion in Long-Awaited Farm Aid Program (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 2025 OP
-0- trust factor.................. Lovie777 Dec 2025 #1
What does Trump know about farming? Has he ever eaten or been near a vegetable? bucolic_frolic Dec 2025 #2
"Has he ever eaten or been near a vegetable?" BumRushDaShow Dec 2025 #3
Was at a PA Turnpike Burger King one time and the guy at the next register asked for a burger. Norrrm Dec 2025 #4
That was Burger King's "marketing strategy" BumRushDaShow Dec 2025 #9
Isn't this socialism? DemMedic Dec 2025 #5
Yes! Ray Bruns Dec 2025 #8
What a shock eh? Pfffttt...this $12 Billion is just the starting pay off Bengus81 Dec 2025 #6
Russia says thank you. Oh, y'all thought they were American farmers. twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #7
Trump ruins their income and then plays the savior with other people's taxes. Socialism? Farmers love him again. Norrrm Dec 2025 #10
And that political cartoon was done during his first term BumRushDaShow Dec 2025 #13
Yep! And they overwhelmingly voted for him again. Norrrm Dec 2025 #15
The orange Buffon created the problem nwduke Dec 2025 #11
Lazy Farmers get the handouts they voted for Prairie Gates Dec 2025 #12
Won't help crop sales next year Raven123 Dec 2025 #14
Who didn't know this was going to happen? Gimpyknee Dec 2025 #16
I'm sure Bessent's application is near the front of the line JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2025 #17
The GOP ruins the farmers and now We The People get to bail them out AGAIN. travelingthrulife Dec 2025 #18
Just pretending to solve... purr-rat beauty Dec 2025 #19
And how much of this taxpayer money goes into Trump's pocket? Jimi du Ranty Dec 2025 #20
The money is probably only going to the corporate factory farms. LudwigPastorius Dec 2025 #21
I doubt it will happen. He'll bait-and-switch it in the fine print Torchlight Dec 2025 #22
This Assistance is Outside the Scope of his Authority eringer Dec 2025 #23

Lovie777

(22,753 posts)
1. -0- trust factor..................
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 07:22 AM
Dec 2025

they have been promising a bail out for sometime and 12 billion seems to be short, plus, the economy sucks.

bucolic_frolic

(54,812 posts)
2. What does Trump know about farming? Has he ever eaten or been near a vegetable?
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 07:32 AM
Dec 2025

He's not even running this clown show

BumRushDaShow

(168,677 posts)
3. "Has he ever eaten or been near a vegetable?"
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 07:51 AM
Dec 2025

Maybe the lettuce, onions, tomatoes, and pickles (made from cucumbers) on a Big Mac.

Norrrm

(4,773 posts)
4. Was at a PA Turnpike Burger King one time and the guy at the next register asked for a burger.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 08:13 AM
Dec 2025

He didn't want 'anything resembling a vegetable' on it.

Bengus81

(10,100 posts)
6. What a shock eh? Pfffttt...this $12 Billion is just the starting pay off
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 08:20 AM
Dec 2025

(and exactly what he gave them for starters in his first term) ,which eventually grew to almost $30 BILLION.

Wonder why they always vote for Republicans?

Norrrm

(4,773 posts)
10. Trump ruins their income and then plays the savior with other people's taxes. Socialism? Farmers love him again.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:49 AM
Dec 2025

nwduke

(504 posts)
11. The orange Buffon created the problem
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:17 AM
Dec 2025

then pushes the US into further debt with a bailout! Sound familiar, repeat of his first catastrophic administration trade war fiasco!

Prairie Gates

(7,891 posts)
12. Lazy Farmers get the handouts they voted for
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:21 AM
Dec 2025

The myth of the hardworking farmer is just that, a myth. Farmers have twice voted in large numbers for Trump, who pledged in each campaign to slap tariffs on China that would reduce their exports and to pay them back with government handouts. It's time we understood that this is not a negative side effect of what they voted for, but precisely what they wanted: to work less, to be in the market less, to have the government hand them checks. They're lazy.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,658 posts)
17. I'm sure Bessent's application is near the front of the line
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:45 AM
Dec 2025

What a wonderful soybean farmer he is.

Jimi du Ranty

(46 posts)
20. And how much of this taxpayer money goes into Trump's pocket?
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 03:20 PM
Dec 2025

Also the large slush fund he created for ICEholes at DHS?

LudwigPastorius

(14,582 posts)
21. The money is probably only going to the corporate factory farms.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 03:46 PM
Dec 2025

They're the ones who can provide the most "donations" to Trump's Presidential Library fund.

Torchlight

(6,711 posts)
22. I doubt it will happen. He'll bait-and-switch it in the fine print
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 03:53 PM
Dec 2025

and his announced aid will turn into another tool to line his personal portfolio with tax dollars meant to assist the nation. I doubt the farmer's will see anything tangible other than a 12 Million Ways to Prepare Soybean cookbook signed by trump.

eringer

(523 posts)
23. This Assistance is Outside the Scope of his Authority
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 04:19 PM
Dec 2025

He can’t dole out money on his command. That is the job of Congress and there won’t be enough votes left to get it through once the projected Repub exodus begins on January 1st. And nothing at all will happen until the SCOTUS rules on whether the convicted felon had the power to assess tariffs in the first place.
Makes good theatre though for those now very poor farmers dying along with their withered crops.

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