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.

โ€œItโ€™s 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. โ€œItโ€™s using federal funds to bail the president out of a bad policy.โ€

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