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October 23, 2018

Vox: Trump’s bailout for farmers hit by trade war will also benefit Chinese companies

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For the past several months, President Donald Trump has been waging a costly trade war with China, which has had no shortage of ill effects on US farmers.

The president decided to use millions of American taxpayer dollars to bail them out — but that money may also end up helping Chinese-owned and foreign-owned agriculture companies operating in the US.

The US Department of Agriculture told the Washington Post this week that a Chinese-owned pork producer that operates in the United States, Smithfield Foods, qualifies for a government bailout check, and so does a Brazilian-owned pork producer called JBS. Both corporations are the two largest pork producers in the country.

 

Read the full story here.

Time: Farmers Know Trump’s Trade War Is Hurting Them. That Doesn’t Mean They’ll Vote Democrat

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