President Donald Trump is pledging to use tariff revenue to bail out farmers reeling from the impact of the ongoing trade war.

“We’re going to take some of that tariff money that we made, we’re going to give it to our farmers, who are, for a little while, going to be hurt until the tariffs kick into their benefit,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. “So we’re going to make sure that our farmers are in great shape, because we’re taking in a lot of money.”

Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins said last week the administration was weighing this action .

The White House did not immediately respond to Fortune ’s request for comment about details regarding the bailout.

Farmers—a historically loyal constituency of Trump’s—have sounded the alarms about how the adminis

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