Trump to Unveil $12 Billion in Long-Awaited Farm Aid Program

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Bloomberg

December 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM EST
Updated on December 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM EST


The Trump administration on Monday plans to unveil a long-awaited farm aid package, according to a White House official, offering $12 billion in assistance to a key base of support hit hard by low crop prices and the impact of the president’s tariff policies.

The aid will include up to $11 billion in one-time payments to crop farmers under the Department of Agriculture’s newly designed Farmer Bridge Assistance program, while the remaining is reserved for crops not covered under the FBA, according to the official, who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public.

The aid comes amid rising frustration among farmers on the slow pace of Chinese purchases, which Beijing clamped down on earlier this year in retaliation for Trump’s escalating tariff barrage.

President Donald Trump plans to announce the package around 2 p.m. in Washington during an event with corn, cotton, sorghum, soybean, rice, cattle, wheat and potato farmers, alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, according to the official.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/trump-set-to-unveil-12-billion-aid-for-farmers-hit-by-trade-war?srnd=homepage-americas

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Should be a hard NO unless the ACA extension is included on some bill.

[Lovie777]

1. -0- trust factor..................

they have been promising a bail out for sometime and 12 billion seems to be short, plus, the economy sucks.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. What does Trump know about farming? Has he ever eaten or been near a vegetable?

He's not even running this clown show

[BumRushDaShow]

3. "Has he ever eaten or been near a vegetable?"

Maybe the lettuce, onions, tomatoes, and pickles (made from cucumbers) on a Big Mac.

[Norrrm]

4. Was at a PA Turnpike Burger King one time and the guy at the next register asked for a burger.

He didn't want 'anything resembling a vegetable' on it.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. That was Burger King's "marketing strategy"

[DemMedic]

5. Isn't this socialism?

[Ray Bruns]

8. Yes!

[Bengus81]

6. What a shock eh? Pfffttt...this $12 Billion is just the starting pay off

(and exactly what he gave them for starters in his first term) ,which eventually grew to almost $30 BILLION.

Wonder why they always vote for Republicans?

[twodogsbarking]

7. Russia says thank you. Oh, y'all thought they were American farmers.

[Norrrm]

10. Trump ruins their income and then plays the savior with other people's taxes. Socialism? Farmers love him again.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. And that political cartoon was done during his first term

with the SAME amount!

[Norrrm]

15. Yep! And they overwhelmingly voted for him again.

[nwduke]

11. The orange Buffon created the problem

then pushes the US into further debt with a bailout! Sound familiar, repeat of his first catastrophic administration trade war fiasco!

[Prairie Gates]

12. Lazy Farmers get the handouts they voted for

The myth of the hardworking farmer is just that, a myth. Farmers have twice voted in large numbers for Trump, who pledged in each campaign to slap tariffs on China that would reduce their exports and to pay them back with government handouts. It's time we understood that this is not a negative side effect of what they voted for, but precisely what they wanted: to work less, to be in the market less, to have the government hand them checks. They're lazy.

[Raven123]

14. Won't help crop sales next year

[Gimpyknee]

16. Who didn't know this was going to happen?

American taxpayers bail out farmers once again.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. I'm sure Bessent's application is near the front of the line

What a wonderful soybean farmer he is.

[travelingthrulife]

18. The GOP ruins the farmers and now We The People get to bail them out AGAIN.

[purr-rat beauty]

19. Just pretending to solve...

....a Problem HE created

[Jimi du Ranty]

20. And how much of this taxpayer money goes into Trump's pocket?

Also the large slush fund he created for ICEholes at DHS?

[LudwigPastorius]

21. The money is probably only going to the corporate factory farms.

They're the ones who can provide the most "donations" to Trump's Presidential Library fund.

[Torchlight]

22. I doubt it will happen. He'll bait-and-switch it in the fine print

and his announced aid will turn into another tool to line his personal portfolio with tax dollars meant to assist the nation. I doubt the farmer's will see anything tangible other than a 12 Million Ways to Prepare Soybean cookbook signed by trump.

[eringer]

23. This Assistance is Outside the Scope of his Authority

He can’t dole out money on his command. That is the job of Congress and there won’t be enough votes left to get it through once the projected Repub exodus begins on January 1st. And nothing at all will happen until the SCOTUS rules on whether the convicted felon had the power to assess tariffs in the first place.
Makes good theatre though for those now very poor farmers dying along with their withered crops.