Bailout checks begin arriving for farmers, as Trump's trade war escalates
Source: The Washington Post
By Jeff Stein
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 has received 39,447 applications for aid. The department has approved 7,851 applications thus 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 size of their production, the USDA said in announcing the program.
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I know one of them. 
(in quotes) or so they call it when it is "someone else", like those "lazy inner city freeloading gang-banging thugs". 
Something you won't hear from a Trump-country farmer:
Rejecting Donald's socialism.
In Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa, and Kansas. 
