Trump Admin Ready To Provide Another Round Of Aid To Farmers Impacted By China Trade War

As trade tensions with China continue to simmer, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins confirmed the Trump administration is standing ready to support farmers whose sales are hurt by the growing trade dispute with China.

Rollins said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” that while the administration hopes a bailout won’t be necessary, they are actively preparing for the possibility.

“We are watching it and analyzing it every single day,” Rollins said, adding that the administration is in constant communication with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to secure the necessary funding if the trade war continues to hurt agricultural exports.

In 2018, as trade negotiations with China intensified, the first Trump administration rolled out a $28 billion bailout to support American farmers impacted by retaliatory tariffs. The bailout provided immediate financial relief to producers of key commodities like soybeans and pork.

This time around, farmers are split on the potential of another similar measure.

“We hope there will be a bailout,” Barry Evans, a sorghum and cotton farmer in Texas told