How Trump’s Big Ag bailout is alienating his MAHA base

How Trump’s Big Ag bailout is alienating his MAHA base

At a White House roundtable last Monday, president Donald Trump, alongside Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and a handful of other leaders in the government, announced a $12 billion farm aid program intended to offset the economic blowback that U.S. farmers have faced this year as a result of the president’s volatile trade policies.  But there’s a catch: only major commodity farming operations — such as those that grow corn, cotton, peanuts,…