The Dem position should be "absolutely not." If Trump wants to keep his tariffs then helping farmers means restoring USAID, restoring all the food assistance grants/contracts killed by DOGE, and expanding programs like SNAP. We're not going to hand out money to watch food rot.
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they can rot in hell
I thought they were always lionized for supposedly having such an amazing work ethic?
You can’t fix stupid
The people who had their food and medicine cut off when USAID was illegally shut down gotta eat and need medicine, right?
The people losing their careers because there's insane people taking over our country need to eat, right?
They’re still voting for Trump appointees in April of 2025.
Because that's a nice easy cover to talk about bailing out *corporate-owned* farms while leaving the little guys in the dust.
Also: *Insert the usual GOP double-standard of 'rules for thee' when it comes to spending money compared to Dems with ideas like this*
Like you cannot forgive student loans!
What do we say!
https://slate.com/technology/2025/04/trump-news-tariffs-killing-manufacturing-jobs.html
and farmers should be paid from wealth of Trump, Musk and fellow billionaires!
Dems' wet dream is "helping kitchen table issues for real Americans." Zero chance that have a backbone and give these farmers what they voted for. They respect the other party's base too much - not like they are the Dem party base, those people can suck it.
He thinks the tariffs are *his money.
It's easy messaging - We won't pay you to idle your fields while people go hungry. We will absolutely pay you to grow more stuff via government contracts to feed people.