U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts says Trump likely to seek compensation for farmers harmed by tariffs
Source: Omaha World Herald
Henry J. Cordes Mar 5, 2025 Updated 8 hrs ago
U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts expects President Donald Trump will seek to compensate Nebraskas farmers if they suffer economic damages due to a brewing trade war over Trumps tariffs.
Trump addressed his trade policy and farmers in his speech before a joint session of Congress Tuesday, asking farmers to bear with me again as he seeks to use tariffs to reset trade relations with nations around the world.
He said, Hey, look, theres going to be an adjustment period here, but I love our farmers, and hes going to look out for them, the Nebraska Republican said during a conference call with reporters Wednesday. And if you look at what he did his first term, thats exactly what he did.
Indeed, Trump offered billions of direct aid payments to U.S. farmers during his first term after his tariff policies toward China drew retaliatory tariffs on American agricultural products.
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Irish_Dem
(79,741 posts)lark
(25,889 posts)Everything he does is murderous. He looks at the options and chooses the one he can exploit and profiteer off the most and that will hurt others to the maximum degree - just as his master commands.
Irish_Dem
(79,741 posts)He wants to be a trillionaire and he gets off on being cruel to others.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
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This is nothing but a ploy to keep Nebraska voting red.
Irish_Dem
(79,741 posts)synni
(673 posts)These morons are beyond redemption.
Bengus81
(9,809 posts)from the Trump tariff in his first term
NotHardly
(2,618 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,741 posts)And we will have to pay for that damage in a number of ways.
UpInArms
(54,046 posts)They still have their crappy billboard sized signs up from 2016
Dump Pence
Farmers for dump
Dont blame me I voted for dump
And some disgusting newer ones ..
I hope they all rot in the hell they created
Lovie777
(21,717 posts)Timeflyer
(3,674 posts)wolfie001
(7,083 posts)And all of their christo-fascist tentacles.
snowybirdie
(6,563 posts)Tariffs to get money from other countries and reduce our debt, and then turn around and incur more debt to compensate farmers'losses? Huh?
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sinkingfeeling
(57,200 posts)resolved by more tax dollars? Can this administration even spell "efficiency"?
travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)Create a completely unnecessary problem then use our money to fix it.
Marthe48
(22,705 posts)Boy smashes engine with sledge hammer, can't figure out why the car won't run.
durablend
(8,896 posts)BlueHurricane
(70 posts)We all just got a tax increase and then he wants the US taxpayer to bail out farmers who he screwed. Maybe they need to learn what it means to keep voting Republican.
He could just drop the tariffs.
DenaliDemocrat
(1,721 posts)Because the tariffs are fucking it up!
Sneederbunk
(17,254 posts)He could hire fired Fed employees to run it.
coprolite
(365 posts)As a taxpayer I do not want to pay for Trumps mistakes. We had to in his first Term, taxpayers paid tariffs at the check out counter and then we paid again when Trump helped the farmer forget their pain when he gave them 26 billion dollars.
No, this can come out of Trumps billionaire tax cuts.
oasis
(53,344 posts)EarthFirst
(3,945 posts)republianmushroom
(22,122 posts)They voted for the convicted felon, let them live and learn like those Muslims.
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oldguy_tls
(24 posts)I love and support the American farmer and have been a big supporter of Farm Aid since it's inception. I opposed these payouts during the drumpenfuhrer's first term to the tune of (correct me if I'm wrong) some $28 Billion! All tRump is trying to do is ensure his rural base doesn't abandon him. If anyone has to suffer for this, let it be drumpf.
MadMike47
(166 posts)The check's in the mail.
Ocelot II
(129,021 posts)they do so much damage to the farm economy that farmers have to be reimbursed by the government for the harm done by the tariffs? WTF?
Prairie Gates
(7,175 posts)Lazy farmers!
(Hurts a bit, don't it?)
brush
(61,033 posts)one lie leads to another...same thing with tariffs.
Aviation Pro
(15,239 posts)And stop this shit right now. No, bail out for fucking MAGAts, Not President Motherfucker Krasnov.
Yavin4
(37,182 posts)Ahhhh...SOCIALISM....run away!!!
Bengus81
(9,809 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,175 posts)They voted for Trump so he could put in tariffs then give them handouts like last time. LAZY!
(See how that works?)
Bengus81
(9,809 posts)Fucking PUSSY................
Retrograde
(11,375 posts)for the billions of gallons of irrigation water that he dumped in January? No? Because even though the farming areas of California support Republicans he needs to punish the state as a whole?