The Trump administration is preparing to distribute financial aid to US farmers that “could be a little less” than $13 billion—but the government shutdown may delay its rollout, the Senate’s top agriculture appropriator said Tuesday.
Administration officials indicated agriculture aid “might go as soon as today—I think that got changed because of shutdown,” Sen.
President Donald Trump has yet to announce the full scope and cost of a farm aid package he, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, have said is on the way. Producers and a ...