Republican Senators: Trump's Farmer 'Welfare' Won't Work
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-senators-trumps-farmer-welfare-wont-work President Donald Trump set off a wave of outrage on Tuesday among Republican lawmakers, who accused the president of authorizing a "bailout" and "welfare" for Americans caught in the crosshairs of his own tariffs. "It's awful. American farmers want markets, not handouts. This is what we feared all along--that this would just turn into more aid programs," Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) told The Daily Beast. Reactions--nearly all of them negative--poured in from Capitol Hill after the Department of Agriculture announced that it would authorize $12 billion in "emergency" subsidies to farmers whose businesses have been hurt by the president's trade policies, which have sparked retaliatory tariffs from China, Canada, Mexico and the European Union. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
