Trump Offers Farmers $12-Billion Bailout To Offset Pain From Trade War
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 1:29.1 | I'm Danielle Kurtzleben. I cover the White House. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent. |
| 1:34.9 | And today on the show, President Trump has announced a $12 billion bailout for farmers to offset the impact of his tariff policies. |
| 1:43.5 | How does this bailout announcement fit into the bigger picture of Trump's economic policies? |
| 1:49.0 | Well, to start with, you just have a lot of voters who really are feeling economic pain for a variety of reasons right now. This is something that polls, including our own polling at NPR, keeps showing us, that voters are talking about, |
| 2:02.2 | especially the big A word, affordability, as a big problem. Now, this bailout announcement |
| 2:08.6 | isn't exactly about affordability, but it is about helping a group of people who have been |
| 2:16.3 | hurt by Trump's tariff policies to at least stay afloat. |
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