Trump, Argentina and beef
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Brooke Rollins on Tuesday defended a Trump administration plan that has ignited criticism from farm groups and some Republicans.
President Donald Trump is stuck between a rock and a hard place, forced to balance the government shutdown-linked delay of promised emergency aid for American farmers with continued efforts to prop up a political ally in Latin America.
Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa told reporters in his state Wednesday that the US and Trump should have used soybeans as leverage before offering Argentina the bailout.
Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins shared on X the Farm Service Agency, tasked with providing farmers with critical services such as loans, disaster reliefand price guarantee
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Trump puts Argentina before American agriculture
With large and persistent federal deficits and increasingly hostile trade relations with China, why is President Donald Trump using scarce federal resources and now private capital to support Argentina‘s economy?