Trump’s farm bailout backfiring with some Republican lawmakers - Entrepreneur Generations

President Trump’s $12 billion plan to help farmers hurt by the trade war with China is getting a chilly reception in Congress, as many Republican lawmakers have pointedly denounced the initiative.

The backlash has “raised new questions about how much more typically pro-Trump lawmakers will abide,” Tory Newmyer writes for The Washington Post. “Most have spent months dodging the issue as the president moved to rip up the party’s once-bedrock commitment to freer trade. President Trump appears intent on testing their breaking point. He's ramping up confrontations with the European Union, China and others even as the pain of counter-punching tariffs starts to bite in critical swing states and beyond.“

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