By Aaron Zitner
The Trump administration is weighing financial aid to America's farmers to mitigate any negative effects from President Trump's tariff program, Brooke Rollins, the U.S. agriculture secretary, said Sunday.
"We have to be prepared that if there is longer-term damage...that we have the funds in working with the senators and working with the appropriators that we can do what we did last time," Rollins said on CNN. The federal government sent about $23 billion to compensate farmers during Trump's first term. Trump's first trade war led to more than $27 billion in losses of agricultural exports, according to USDA research.
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