Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 195
Shake Up
President Trump said that his administration would continue offering subsidies to farmers until various trade deals “fully kick in.”
He falsely claimed the aid would be “paid for out of the massive tariff money coming into the USA!”
Those tariffs are actually paid by U.S. consumers, not foreign countries.
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