Reuters

The Trump administration is drawing up plans to use tariff revenue to fund a program to support U.S. farmers, the Financial Times reports, citing agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins.

"There may be circumstances under which we will be very seriously looking to and announcing a package soon," Rollins told the newspaper in an interview published Thursday, Sept. 18.

Rollins said financing the bailout with “tariff income that is now coming into America” was “absolutely a potential.” From March: Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says USDA ready to bail out farmers damaged by tariff backlash

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The report follows pressure from farm groups after C

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