The prospect of a steep price tag to shore up farmers during a trade war has sounded alarm from some groups that scrutinize federal spending.
โItโs perhaps more of a bailout for the president and for Republicans than it is for farmers,โ said Joshua Sewell, director of research and policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan budget watchdog. โItโs using federal funds to bail the president out of a bad policy.โ
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